Anatol Rapoport Quotes
It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.
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I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.
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But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.
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The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
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Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.
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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
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If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
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If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
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If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.
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If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.
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There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
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You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
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Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.
