Richard Rohr Quotes
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.Richard Rohr
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung -
Addictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved.
Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.
Pierre Dukan -
Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.
Matthew Perry -
I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.
Matthew Perry
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All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.
Jeffrey Kluger -
Addiction is a terrible thing.
Jamie Dornan -
A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.
Doris Day -
It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
Gabor Mate -
I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.
Edward Boyden -
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.
Edwidge Danticat
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There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend he refuses to crawl And he's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And struggles and bleeds as he hangs on his cross And likes to be known as the angry young man.
Billy Joel -
From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.
Marianne Williamson -
We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.
David Deida -
Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.
Marianne Williamson -
The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.
Pir Vilayat Khan -
I don't think this is the moment to do sanctions, and I do think the sanctions may contribute to the opposite that we want to obtain, which is defusing of the crisis.
Javier Solana
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Primary consciousness is a kind of ‘remembered present’…
David Lewis-Williams -
I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.
Carrie Fisher -
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
G. M. Trevelyan -
The clothes I wear... that doesn't change. I love long dresses. I love velvet. I love high boots. I never change. I love the same eye make-up. I'm not a fad person. I still have everything I had then. That's one part of me... that's where my songs come from. There's a song on the new Fleetwood Mac album [Mirage] that says, 'Going back to the velvet underground/back to the floor that I love,' because I always put my bed on the floor. 'To a room with some lace and paper flowers/ back to the gypsy that I was.'
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.
Kaui Hart Hemmings -
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
Richard Rohr