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“It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd”

“It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.”

Form Lows Hatred Sameness Otherness

Author:Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.”

Humans Body Eye Skins Ears Tongue Gates Nourishment Otherness

Book:The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

Source: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

“We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see it as God. But it is there. It is the sense that comes over us as we stare into the starlit sky, or watch the last fiery rays of an evening sunset. It is the morning shiver as we wake on a beautiful day and smell a richness in the air that we know and love from somewhere we can't quite recall. It is the mystery behind the beginning of time and beyond the limits of space. It is a sense of otherness that brings alive something deep in our hearts.”

Source: Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

“One of the age-old truths about love is that while it offers unparalleled opportunities for union and the lifting of ego boundaries, it also washes us up on the shores of the loved one's otherness. Sooner or later, love makes us feel inescapably separate.”

Love Feels Age Opportunity Love Is Offers Ego Unions Boundaries Shore Loved Ones Sooner Or Later Lifting Otherness

Book:Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

Source: Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

“They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship. It was almost embarrassing to”

“The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .”

Self Despair Skins Bones Rooted Pale Glamour Childlike Sinister Auras Gum Admiring Chewing Carelessness Otherness Naivete Skin And Bones

Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.”

People Ifs I Can Culture Identity Definitions Fixed Ingredients Palestinian Recipes Tidy Otherness

Author:Mona Hatoum

“By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this - if it can help us perceive and respect a nature we had forgotten to recognize as natural - then it will become part of the solution to our environmental dilemmas rather than part of the problem.”

Ifs Firsts Helping Problem Can Do Natural Seeing Solutions Ordinary Environmental Forgotten Perceive Wilderness Our Environment Dilemma Unfamiliar Otherness

Author:William Cronon

“Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives. With different words, they all proclaim the same core message: "Be not afraid." Though the traditions vary widely in the ways they propose to take us beyond fear, all hold out the same hope: we can escape fear's paralysis and enter a state of grace where encounters with otherness will not threaten us but will enrich our work and our lives.”

Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

“Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.”

Together Imagination Mystery Absolutes Painter Celebrate Consulting Otherness

Author:Lynne Truss

“You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.”

Needs Able Strong Otherness

Author:Amos Lee