Everyone who owns a home recognizes the need for fire insurance. We hope and pray that there will never be a fire. Nevertheless, we pay for insurance to cover such a catastrophe, should it occur. We ought to do the same with reference to family welfare.
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and ask me questions. One could say at that point I became a spiritual teacher, although the term did not occur to me then.
The more revolutions occur, the less things change.
Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative?
A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point. . . and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.
I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.
This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years ago are now wildflower meadows. The rebuilding of Detroit will occur a much smaller scale. It remains to be seen what will become of Detroit's vast suburbs.
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
In some places - particularly in Asia and Europe - you often see anti-government graffiti, seditious slogans, banners, leaflets, in certain neighbourhoods. The idea is that rather than wait for an explosion to occur from a bomb, it would be useful to gather intelligence on the location of these incidents.
Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.
Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy. '
Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?
I continue to hope and believe that the best stories and photographs are yet to occur. My quest for them will certainly require that I keep my head up and my eyes and heart open as I walk down the street.
Death is inevitable from the perspective that, if you're done here on earth, you have completed what is necessary to have been done here and you are now ready to further the discoverygrowth of self which occur in the dimensions - it's time to go.
Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz. , that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.