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.

Thomas Keating

• Attention
• Prayer
• Expression
• Intention
• Sacred
• Centering

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• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
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  • Never
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• We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

  

  Quintilian
  • Reading
  • Deep
  • Minds

• 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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
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  • Woman

• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
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  • Effort
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• He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

  

  Mae West
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  • Woman
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• Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Life
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Want
  • First
  • Secrets

• 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.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Art
  • Understanding

• I don't feel as if I have to force anything. I just have to play my game.

  

  Lawrence Timmons
  • Game

• No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

  

  Lemon Andersen

• 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.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Police

• 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.

  

  Kevin Chamberlin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Nice

• Rock and roll is here to stay.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Rock
  • Here
  • Stay

• 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!

  

  Busy Philipps
  • People
  • Pain
  • Baby

• 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.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Believe
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• The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab.

  

  Bernard L. Schwartz

• We need to stop refighting 40-year old battles on women's rights.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Women
  • Stop

• I left 'How I Met Your Mother' and jumped right onto an episode of 'S.H.I.E.L.D.,' the TV show. I wrapped, and the next day I was on set shooting 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Mother

• In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.

  

  James L. Buckley
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Accountability

• I play games on-set at work. Sometimes I can't remember people's names, so I start throwing out clues. Like if I can't think of George Clooney, I'll say, 'You know, drop-dead gorgeous, was on a big TV show... ' Until someone says his name, I can't finish my story!

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• The only proper intoxication is conversation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Conversation
  • Proper
  • Intoxication

• Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor.

  

  Gary Saul Morson
  • Opportunity
  • Authorship
  • Anthology

• In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Attention
  • Prayer
  • Expression