Thomas Keating Quotes
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
Quotes to Explore
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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I don't feel as if I have to force anything. I just have to play my game.
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No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.
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In too many ways, Ohio is being run for the benefit of those who have already made it, and too many of our friends and neighbors are being left behind. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cuts to police officers, firefighters, nurses, teachers, and to our local schools, while property and sales taxes are going up.
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When I auditioned for 'Jessie,' I knew that Disney Channel basically will do 100 episodes of a show if it's a hit; they'll stick with something. It's a great network to work with because they make a nice big commitment to a show.
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Rock and roll is here to stay.
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I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!
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When I talk about democratic socialist, I am talking about Medicare, a single payer health care system for the elderly. And in my view, we should expand that concept to all people. I believe that everybody in this country should be entitled to health care as a right.
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The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab.
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Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.
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I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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People are attracted to your light because they want it for themselves. It's like fireflies. When we were kids in New York, we would visit my dad and catch fireflies because we were so attracted to their light. Put them in jars next to our bed, and then they'd die. Then we'd go out the next night and get another firefly. That's how people are.
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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
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In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
