Charles L. Whitfield Quotes
Spirituality is about the relationships that we have with our self, with others and with the universe.
Quotes to Explore
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
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It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
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I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
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The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
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I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
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Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.
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The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
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Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
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Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain.
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Spirituality is about the relationships that we have with our self, with others and with the universe.
