Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.
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Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
Every midwife knows _x000D_ that not until a mother’s womb _x000D_ softens from the pain of labor _x000D_ will a way unfold _x000D_ and the infant find that opening to be born. _x000D_ Oh friend! _x000D_ There is treasure in your heart, _x000D_ it is heavy with child. _x000D_ Listen. _x000D_ All the awakened ones, _x000D_ like trusted midwives are saying, _x000D_ 'welcome this pain. _x000D_ It opens the dark passage of Grace.
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
Being infinitely patient means having an absolute knowing that you're in vibrational harmony with the all-creating force that intended you here. You know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.
You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.
If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.
There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.
Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.
I'm lucky enough to be able to make only movies I'm interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The audience knows when you're faking it. They can hang any kind of moniker they want on me.
I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.
What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.
The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.
I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.
There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will
You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.
I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.
History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.
It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.
It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything.
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