"If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace."

-- Paul Brunton

#Crush Quotes #Doors Quotes #Grace Quotes

“I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.”
“...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.”
“I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting.”
“I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.”

Source : "‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Director Rupert Sanders On Kristen Stewart And His ‘Mirror Mirror’ Fears" by Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.
“In these researches I followed the principles of the experimental method that we have established, i.e., that, in presence of a well-noted, new fact which contradicts a theory, instead of keeping the theory and abandoning the fact, I should keep and study the fact, and I hastened to give up the theory.”
“I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.”
“As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.”
“I'm a proper mummy's boy.”

Source : "Pop's future" by Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2006.

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