Brian Swimme Quotes
When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.
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Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.
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When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
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Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.
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We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
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The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.
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I think people like us because of the culture of trust we have in the site, the culture of goodwill -- and people manage to get stuff done.
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I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
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We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.
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So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.
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What is and what is not create each other.
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In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
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The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.
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There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.
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This is what I'm king of: a whirling mass of humans who either hate me or ignore me.
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Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have existed. The Army has done so because of its unique character- a uniqueness based primarily upon intangibles that cannot be costed.
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See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.
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When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.
