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Jihan El-Tahri
"I think having six people all with different energies and different perceptions all working around a script is quite profound. It’s not about, oh that’s what you should be doing." --
Source : "Africa First 2012 Profile: Advisor Jihan El-Tahri On Pressures, Successes & Criticisms Of Program". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. April 10, 2012.
Jihan El-Tahri
#Thinking Quotes
#People Quotes
#Profound Quotes
“When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.”
“I want to make a dent in the universe...”
“Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.”
“It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.”
“Yoga is the art and science of living.”
“If you feel you can't forgive, ask God to penetrate your unforgiveness with His love. When we have to do the impossible, God says that the way it happens is "not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit" (Zechariah 4:6). This means that certain things will not be accomplished by human strength, but only by the power of God. The Holy Spirit will enable us to forgive even the unforgivable.”
“The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family.”
“Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have a chance of arriving by random shuffling, of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.”
