Thomas Keating Quotes

Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

Thomas Keating

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• Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.

  

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• I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

  

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• I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

  

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• You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

  

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• I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.

  

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• 'Lambe them, lads! lambe them!' a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

  

  Walter Scott
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• I'm really into psychology, and I want to be a psych major.

  

  Brittany Snow
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• We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.

  

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• I wrote my first single, 'Keep Your Head Up,' and that's what got me on the radio and helped me develop a whole base around the country.

  

  Andy Grammer
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• A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

  

  James A. Garfield
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• If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.

  

  David Hewson
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• I'm looking to see more women of color not only in companies in technology, but also creating companies.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
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• I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

  

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• Blue is the color of peace. Water is blue. I like the color blue because it just puts me at peace. The patriotic symbol is blue. I just like blue.

  

  Antonio Brown
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• I have never, ever, received any taunts or any form of anti-Semitism. And I suppose being a Jewish football player with the Atlanta Falcons was no different than being a Baptist football player with the Atlanta Falcons. But in the back of your mind, you always expect something to happen.

  

  Bill Goldberg
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• If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.

  

  Jesse Ventura
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• He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

  

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• The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.

  

  James Surowiecki
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• A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.

  

  Phil Klay
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• With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.

  

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• One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

  

  Heraclitus
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• Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Training
  • Prayer
  • Centering