I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.
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I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.
You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.
People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.
We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
The average person can’t really trust anybody. They can’t trust a broker, because the broker is interested in churning commissions. They can’t trust a mutual fund, because the mutual fund is interested in gathering a lot of assets and keeping them. And now it’s even worse because even the most sophisticated people have no idea what’s going on.
We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its purity. It is a great silence and a great joy to be there, and once you start abiding there, there is no death and no time. All fear, all greed, all anger, disappears: one is just there with no idea, no desire.
Today the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hoping to “get somewhere,” but having no idea of where they’re going.
You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.
She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.
You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.
You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.
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