Thomas Keating Quotes
If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.
Quotes to Explore
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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Everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...
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Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
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An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.
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I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit.
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I'm an only child.
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Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.
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I like small, domestic stories.
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Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.
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We were very proud of everything that we accomplished with 'Hail To The King,' but when it was time to write a new record, it was like, 'Well, we accomplished that. Let's see what else we can do,' and took it to the next level.
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The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.
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Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?
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A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy.
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If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.
