What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
BILL VAUGHANThe work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho’the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. T
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Middle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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If you’re involved in an accident and you’re at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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Goal achievement is hero’s work.
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Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
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What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
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Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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