"Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness."

-- Richard Chenevix Trench

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“I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.”
“I use quite a bit in my kitchen, but the one thing that's an absolute must would have to be my high-speed blender.”
“Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don't actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes at the approach to the brink of what feels like a void, where the obliteration of the egoic self seems imminent. With a shocked recognition of what is being asked, the person will recoil. The scale of the loss-the dissolution of the familiar self-is beyond what was bargained for.”

Source : Jan Frazier (2012). “The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is”, p.63, Weiser Books
“We used to say I don't care if I never have any money As long as I have my sweet honey and a shack in the woodland Now we say I don't care if I don't have money, but it's not true We can't live without money, no, because we don't want to We want one of those and two of those, and oh that one looks neat, wrap it up Put it on my MasterCard. Put it on my Visa And I sing it now, hey hey, hey hey, who woulda thunk it Hey hey, hey hey, who woulda thunk it.”
“This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.”
“Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.”
“For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.”
“Don't ask your customers what they want. This rule is based on the view that they probably don't know. You have to fully understand them, the context for their needs and their major dissatisfactions.”

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