"We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves usâ€”which in most cases is a very long timeâ€”but to look at it as just that, a vehicle, a raft to help us cross through the waters of doubt, confusion, desire, and fear."

-- Jack Kornfield

#Practice Quotes #Long Quotes #Water Quotes

“The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung!”
“I wish you all a long and happy life”
“The first and most important thing for me is that people feel how beautiful fashion can be and that it is not just a case of well-made and expensive clothes. Fashion is so rich and it is such an amazing occupation because we can draw on so many different sources of inspiration - just as a hummingbird feeds on a multitude of flowers.”
“A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.”
“Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.”

Source : Vandana Shiva (2016). “Soil, Not Oil: Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity”, p.15, Zed Books Ltd.
“The artists ultimately respond to the public.”
“While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.”
“I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism â€” ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world â€” Death is only an incident in Life.”

Source : "Joseph Vance". Book by William De Morgan, Chapter XI, 1906.

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