The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.
The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength. . it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.
To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.
We have a sense of continuity, which gives us what we call a sense of time. Through our ability to have remembrances of both what's coming and what's happening and what has happened, we begin to piece together a logical picture of the world.
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
I always get worried about disrupting continuity. I seem to get blamed for that a lot.
With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmonies, actions which in their sequence one upon another constitute in their continuity what may be termed the 'behaviour'.
Identity is the continuity in a personality that survives through various vicissitudes, through change.
When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.
But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or revelation, just relentlessly and meaninglessly. No more rain showers in the desert, just mud and drizzle everywhere, occasionally illuminated by the flash of paparazzi.
Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state.
We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories
Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created only out of regularity. It has to be very persistent and a continuity has to be maintained. Even to miss for one day is to destroy much - and at least one hour every day has to be given to it.
You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.
Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to.