Thomas Keating Quotes

Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

Thomas Keating

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• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Filmmaker

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Women
  • Society
  • Army

• The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Health
  • Countries
  • Outcomes

• Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Dream
  • Entrepreneur
  • Chef

• My soul is full of whispered song,- My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so long Are full of life and light.

  

  Alice Cary
  • Life
  • Long
  • Soul

• I love cocktails. My specialty drink is a gimlet with a little egg white in it so it gets frothy. I really like rose water - sometimes I'll add it to champagne.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Water
  • Rose
  • Champagne

• 'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

  

  Chip Esten
  • Music
  • Country
  • Heart

• It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

  

  Jim Sullivan
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Brother

• Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

  

  Frederick Pollock
  • Political
  • Revolution

• There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.

  

  Bill Keller
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Question

• The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees
  • Black

• People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true. But I think that the South is changing, slowly but surely.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Bad
  • True

• I think political people are afraid of me.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • People
  • Political

• Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.

  

  Tacitus
  • Men

• Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.

  

  William Stafford
  • People
  • Character
  • Compassion

• I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Fear
  • Feels
  • Loss

• Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Believe
  • Choices
  • Decisions

• Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Desire
  • Spiritual
  • Feels