Monists And Dualists Quotes & Sayings

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice. — Frederick Wiseman

We see the world and our words in one impression, as if we're looking at a forest through a green filter. We can't see what's really green and what's not. If we were to walk around with the filter in our eye long enough, we'd forget it was there, and life would just be green. — Dave Logan

India is the only country where there never has been a religious persecution, where never was any man disturbed for his religious faith. Theists or atheists, monists, dualists, monotheists are there and always live unmolested. Materialists were allowed to preach from the steps of Brahminical temples, against the gods, and against God Himself; they went preaching all over the land that the idea of God was a mere superstition, and that gods, and Vedas, and religion were simply superstitions invented by the priests for their own benefit, and they were allowed to do this unmolested. — Swami Vivekananda

I've spent more time in Las Vegas than any other city, almost including L.A. where I live. — Howie Mandel

I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running. — Emanuel Cleaver

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price. — Jim Henson

No one, at night, really believes he'll live forever. — Charles L. Grant

For right now, we're just having fun, and I guess we'll see where things go. But I hope that it will lead to more." I can't believe I actually said that out loud at a concert. — Danielle Jamie

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good. — Matthieu Ricard

Because you can be upset while you're eating chocolate Santas. But it's much, much, much more difficult. — Fredrik Backman

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M.
So as not to be dead. — Ray Bradbury

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation. — Kenneth Rexroth

Marital partners often trigger in each other resourceless states - negative trance-like experiences in which partners feel devoid of satisfactory solutions. Carol Kershaw maps these interactional loops and provides Ericksonian strategies to help couples make their marriage entrancing. Therapists of all persuasions are sure to benefit from this important book. — Jeffrey K. Zeig

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down. — Mike Birbiglia

How do you think the world popped into existence? - I'd say wee we are at least five Albert Einsteins away from answering this question. — Martin Amis

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes." - — Clare Boothe Luce