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Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are. ↗

— Nevea Lane

#writing-life #life

A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#consciousness-mind-brain #ego #false-belief #intuition #intuitive

At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#god #sabbath #life

So really there's almost no point in planning anything out at all, because life is so infinitely complex that you can almost never just take a straight road from A to B without going via the whole rest of the alphabet first, and all because a butterfly happened to flap its wings in Thailand ↗

— Andrew Blackman

#life

I'm sorry you're dying. I'm going to hug you now. ↗

— Dr. Robert Chase

#life #life

The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be transformed into action. Contemplation was like sitting on a committee that seldom made recommendations and was ignored when it did, a committee that lacked even the authority to disband. ↗

— Richard Russo

#life

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence... ↗

— Jane Bennett

#life #life-force #matter #meaning-of-life #life

He used to annoy me with sophistry that we all chose our destiny. Then one day I told him that that’s great when fate offers you a nice set of destinies to choose from, but when you find yourself choosing between risking being raped, tortured and killed, or moving to another country to live like an alien without tongue, money or understanding, you are buggered either way. And that’s not even to mention how easily he could navigate through the mine filed of his mistakes... ↗

— Dunya Look

#truth-of-life #understanding-oneself-and-others #inspirational

[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us. ↗

— Johann Baptist Metz

#life #obedience #spirituality #life

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this. ↗

— Mark Bowden

#life