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I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and… — Paulo Coelho
I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with a direct answer… — Philip Yancey
Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. — Jerry Bridges
Colossians 1:16 tells us that everything was created FOR God... don't we live instead as though God is created for US, to do OUR bidding,… — Francis Chan
Instead of telling God how big your problems are, tell your problem how BIG your God is. — Joel Osteen
Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men. — John Wimber
Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly… — Swami Vivekananda
I gotta big mouth, I can’t help it, I talk from my heart, I’m real, whatever comes comes. But my controversy problem, it’s not my… — Tupac Shakur
If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will… — Eckhart Tolle
The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people… — Frank Zappa
Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today… — Oswald Chambers
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them. — St. Jerome
We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking… — Yoko Ono
While I hold my own views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the… — Marcus Samuelsson
If you embrace moderation, eat whole foods instead of junk, live within your physical, monetary, and environmental budget rather than constantly exceeding it, you will… — Mark Bittman
Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses — Walter Russell
Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see… — Marcel Proust
I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it — Janis Joplin
Cultivating care and concern for others gives rise to a kind of inner strength. No matter what difficulties or problems you face, in this wider… — Dalai Lama
Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is… — Pema Chodron
God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead,… — David Platt
The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do… — Chuck D
This moment right here, me standing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of network television full of women of color,… — Shonda Rhimes

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