"We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch."

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Source : Charlotte Mew (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.56, Carcanet

Charlotte Mew

#Firsts Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.”
“One of the great dangers on the spiritual path is that the ego becomes spiritualized. The ego loves to think of itself as spiritually evolved. It is just another way that it manages to feel important and in control. It is very difficult to free yourself from an enlightened ego.”
“A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.”
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. And the way to make sure it never starts is to abolish the dangerous costly nuclear stockpiles which imprison mankind.”
“Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.”
“A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.”
“Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.”
“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”

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