Adam Quotes
Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.
People leave companies for two reasons. One, they don't feel appreciated. And two, they don't get along with their boss.
History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.
Some people love you for a reason, some people hate you for no reason... Yet I am still me and you are still you.
Let God grow in you. Hear his voice in your need. Let Jesus resurrect you right now, in this life, even before you’re done dying. Let him put your spirit back in your hungry body.
Jesus is supposed to be the Alpha and the Omega, but in the Bible he's neither. He's stuck in the middle like the letter Q.
You can unlock spiritual things only from within.
Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.
Mankind is like ocean, we only see the things which comes up! If we wanna know someone better we need a deeper dive.
A single thought, he considered, could do all sorts of harm. Harm to what, he wasn't sure, but he identified it as harm.
Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.
We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.
Language is accurate: you run for your life. If you are dying, leave. If you are suffering, move. There is no other law, only movement.
... that "take" was a word people used for those who had so little to give as to be immeasurable.
People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".
Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.
Imperfection doesn’t disqualify you from helping others -- it makes you more qualified to give advice in the area you learned from.
The requirement for advice being received well is that you’ve produced results with your life. Results are what matters!
IF YOU WALK THROUGH THE FIRE I’LL COME TO THEE. As Bob walked past he wondered how many gods that piece of advice might apply to.
Wow, ” says Peter, “when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.
...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
Magick is the manipulation of the Laws of Cause-and-Effect in accordance with one's Will, via states of Higher Consciousness.
Don't be arrogant, Because there are a lot of people that still be better than you.
You ate my dog, you undead freak!”Hey! Watch the slander. I hear the acceptable term is ‘corporeallychallenged’ now. No need to be rude.
Since the fall of Man and the return of Magery and our older ways, most disputes were settled in a civilized manner: sword to the face, mace to the neck, acceptable societal situational handlers
He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic.
Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.
The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, leads us nowhere, and generally devalues us in our own eyes and the eyes of others.
When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!
Anger, hate, blind temper, that crazy switch to destroy, all of it purified into discipline and control, the best side of boxing, Billy says.
She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?
Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.
The day might come when I had nothing but memories, and the choice of whether to indulge my romantic side and wallow in them, or my cynical side and reflect on the reliability.
Let's take a walk. You can show me some of your memories and I'll show you some of mine.
One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth.
Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.
The right sort of lie, I found, could serve better than the truth.
To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.
Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.