Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.
Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of nonidentification, and nonidentification is all. Nonidentification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation.
I let it all out--my mom's date,my dad's conversation,my confusion about it all. Caleb doesn't laugh,he doesn't pull away,he doesn't talk. . He just lets me be me. When I settle down,I lean back and witness the mess I've made on his shirt. "I made ur shirt all gross," I say between sniffles. "Forget the shirt. What's going on? I could. nt understand a word you mumbled into my chest. " Now I'm half laughing and half crying.
The blood of our Christian brothers is a witness that cries out. . If they are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it is not important : They are Christians. The blood is the same: It is the blood which confesses Christ.
Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.
As God is my witness, the more I deal with women, the more I like my cat.
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
The way Trump talks about Obama: presidents don't do that! What we're seeing now is a whole new level of vulgarity. I'm really hoping that it's not the rule from here on out. It's really distressing for me to witness this. I really hope we don't have to throw all decency out the window, just because Trump's president.
Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us--through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment.
It has passed over mountain ranges and The waters of the seven seas. It has shown upon laborers in the fields, Into the windows of homes, And shops, and factories. It has beheld cities with gleaming towers, And also the hovels of the poor. It has been witness to both good and evil, The works of honest men and women and The conspiracy of knaves. It has seen marching armies, bomb-blasted villages And "the destruction that wasteth at noonday. " Now, unsullied from its tireless journey, It comes to us, Messenger of the morning. Harbinger of a new day.
Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.
Just witness yourself with your human part and hold yourself with love, if you can, or at least acceptance.
I write as a witness to what I have seen.
I try to use every game as an opportunity to witness. I try to do a little signal every time I make a shot as a way to preach the message in little ways that I can.