“There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable with that. I don't teach that type of Zen.” FeelsMightTeachImagineTypeComfortableJapanIntroductionMonasteries Author:Frederick Lenz
“Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingEndsSeemsMightViewsHalfImagineThis WorldBuildingComfortComfortableRegardPrisonUglyDoctrineOptimisticHotelPessimistOther Half Author:C. S. Lewis
“I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.” LifeShouldReasonDoneWholeImagineComfortableLondonReason WhyNo ReasonSuburbsPurgatory Author:Mary Borden
“Imagine if I cannot stand someone and every day he is here in my face, then I cannot work. Then, the whole time, I am thinking "I hate him, I hate him." But if I love him or I love her, then I can do anything, then I am comfortable. That's why it's so important to be surrounded by people that you really like.” PeopleIfsThinkingI CanImportantWholeFacesHateCan DoImagineComfortableI HateI Love HimHate HimI Hate Him Author:Marjane Satrapi
“I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.” KnowsEndsDreamDesireDifficultImagineChildhoodComfortableEternalDisappearLife And DeathYearningAdolescence Author:Hugh Hefner
“Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand.” WorldMatterHardHandsWould BeSoundGreaterImagineStrangeComfortablePassionatePerformersRebelListenersEarnestEnsembleQuartetsVirtuosity Author:Allan Kozinn
“Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.” IfsMightChurchImagineSafeComfortableSanctuary Author:Rachel Held Evans
“If we desire to end our days in joy and comfort, let us lay the foundation of a comfortable death now betimes. To die well is not a thing of that light moment as some imagine: it is no easy matter. But to die well is a matter of every day. Let us daily do some good that may help us at the time of our death. Every day by repentance pull out the sting of some sin,that so when death comes, we may have nothing to do but to die. To die well is the action of the whole life.” IfsWellsMayEndsMatterWholeMomentsHelpingLightActionJoyDesireDiesEasySinImagineComfortComfortableFoundationLaysWhole LifeRepentance Author:Richard Sibbes