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The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.

Bill Vaughan

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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Heaven Pity Way
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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Mean Meditate Meditation Ourselves Self
It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
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Coming Happens Jesus
There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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Demerits Emotionally Fish Once React
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Day Disappear Groundhog Prophet
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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Christmas Motivational New Year
It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Chance Nostalgia Safe
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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Highest Long Men Race Respond
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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Dog Kings Shoes
Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
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Balance Comprehensive Down Thinking
On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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Common Hands People Sense
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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Dark Funny Teeth
And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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Discussion Hence Intellectual Strength Theological
It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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Body Long Sweet Weight
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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Believe Communicate Groups Thinking
The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
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Atheist Believe Self

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