Emma Restall Orr famous quotes

The important element is the way in which all things are connected. Every thought and action sends shivers of energy into the world around us, which affects all creation. Perceiving the world as a web of connectedness helps us to overcome the feelings of separation that hold us back and cloud our vision. This connection with all life increases our sense of responsability for every move, every attitude, allowing us to see clearly that each soul does indeed make a difference to the whole.
-- Emma Restall Orr

#Attitude #Moving #Differences

There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they falter; nothing exists outside of nature. In other words, my philosophy does not require that I believe in something I cannot experience directly.
-- Emma Restall Orr

#Philosophy #Believe #Doe

Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.
-- Emma Restall Orr

#Reality #Ideas #Mind

If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to live with the ocean. You learn how to float, to swim, to be a part of it, to be with it. That is the nature of the Pagan's relationship with nature.
-- Emma Restall Orr

#Ocean #Swim #Trying

There are no facts, only stories.
-- Emma Restall Orr

#Stories #Facts

The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.
-- Emma Restall Orr

#Ideas #Perception #Veils

All that is obvious detracts completely from all that is not.
-- Emma Restall Orr

#Obvious

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

Don't miss out on the love of a good women,son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you,love is real.I'd have never had the success in my life without the women right there.She's been my backbone.She's been my reason for everything I've ever done.One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won't be that important anymore.But when you're doing it for someone else, someone you would move heaven and earth for then you never lose the desire to succeed.I can't imagine this world without her in it.I don't ever want to.

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.