"When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God."

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Source : Jakob Böhme (1781). “The works ¬of ¬J. ¬Behmen, ¬the ¬teutonic ¬theosopher”

Jakob Bohme

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Hearing Quotes

“The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.”
“You know Iâ€™m the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me? Just breaking the boundaries, man”
“I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. governmentâ€™s policy towards people of color.”
“Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.”

Source : "Markham v. Prodigy". TIME magazine, November 23, 1925.
“There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.”
“I donâ€™t demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.”
“As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. Some people have easy temperaments and weak characters; others have difficult temperaments and strong characters. We are all prone to confuse the two in assessing people we associate with. Those with easy temperaments and weak characters are more likable than admirable; those with difficult temperaments and strong characters are more admirable than likable.”
“The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.”

Source : "It's the Sun, stupid!: New direct evidence demonstrate that changes in solar activity influence climate". Essay by Willie Soon, March 9, 2009.

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