Thomas Keating Quotes

Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.

Thomas Keating

• Enough
• Possibility
• Becoming
• Rational
• Distortion

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• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Wonder
  • Film
  • Enough

• A woman can never have enough shoes.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Woman
  • Enough
  • Shoes

• When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

  

  J Mascis
  • Play
  • Enough
  • Moment

• In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Job
  • Enough
  • Drummer

• Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Hand
  • Enough
  • U.S.

• Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Love
  • Enough
  • Structure

• Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Taken
  • Enough
  • Easy

• There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Music
  • Live
  • Enough

• It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Enough
  • Partnership

• As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Language
  • Philosophy
  • Lying

• It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Government
  • Enough
  • Legal

• Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Afraid

• My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Respect
  • Enough
  • Accepting

• Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Search
  • Possibility
  • Aware

• I've never seen anyone sleep with their head hanging off the back of a wooden chair before - was the couch not comfortable enough for you?

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Sleep
  • Enough
  • Chairs

• Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • Wonder
  • Enough
  • Be kind

• I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Money
  • Done
  • Running

• The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Words
  • Thoughts
  • Enough

• If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

  

  Paul Harvey
  • Chance
  • Wrong
  • Times

• Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Law
  • Cases
  • Broke

• It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

  

  Jon Corzine
  • Hours
  • Congress
  • Increase

• Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Enough
  • Possibility
  • Becoming