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“The acknowledgment that God is always with us - even when we are least aware of it in our sensory being - requires discipline. To acknowledge the Unseen Real requires a concerted effort of our will at first. This is why the term practicing the presence is so useful.”
Source : Leanne Payne (1999). “Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal”, p.130, Baker Books
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“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”
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“Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.”
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“I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.”
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“I'm usually just enjoying life.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumph†and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.”
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“If you find yourself ruminating over a hurt and are not ready to forgive, shift to gratitude. Think about all that is good in your life and all that you appreciate.”
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“You look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy can deal with the fear and still not paralyze you or tell you that it's going away. You say, OK, you got certain choices here, you can laugh at them and then once you've laughed at them and you have expunged the demon, now you can deal with them. That's what I do when I do my act.”