The 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.
BILL VAUGHANOne of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
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Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
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The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
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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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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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