Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.
Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.
Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker. " "What are you going to motivate people to do?" Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. "You know. Motivational. . . stuff.
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of being a famous writer, and again there's a slight disconnect with reality which happens a lot with me. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is only now.
To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.
There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.
I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.
We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
We're far worse than we ever imagined, and far more loved than we could ever dream.
Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years.
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love.