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  • For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Real Quotes , Trying Quotes
  • If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Gun Quotes , Trying Quotes
  • Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Alchemist Quotes , Trying Quotes
  • I would say that during the time that I was 14 and pregnant - I didn't even know what pregnancy was when I got pregnant - I was trying to do everything I could to harm myself. I said to God, "God, if you want me to die, then you're going to have to kill me".
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Pregnancy Quotes , Trying Quotes