"The goal is to rise spiritually, not simply to avoid sin."

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Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

#Goal Quotes #Sin Quotes

“One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.”
“New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s without, on some level, talking about Steinbrenner. Even if you're just talking about the feel of the city, he was part of a creation of a new sense of optimism.”
“Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases”

Source : Kurt Lewin (2013). “Principles of Topological Psychology”, p.24, Read Books Ltd
“Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.”
“In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together they provide an unusually touching story of young love unable to prevail against an opposition whose strength was tragically buttressed by the uncertainties of a cultural divide.”
“The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.”
“By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, and makes us long for heaven.”
“As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.”

Source : Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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