Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
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Acoustic space has the basic character of a sphere whose focus or centre is simultaneously everywhere and whose margin is nowhere...
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As long as there is conscious life on Earth, there will be suffering. The question becomes what to do with the existence each of us is given. We can choose to add our own fury and misery to the rest, or we can set an example by simultaneously working constructively to alleviate suffering while leading joyous, meaningful, fulfilled lives. Being a vegan isn't about deprivation or anger. It's about being fully aware so as to be fully alive.
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Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
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I think the problem with the Patriot Act is not the law itself, it's the way it's being administered, particularly the way it's being administered by the attorney general of the United States, General Ashcroft, ... It is why I have proposed taking away from the FBI the responsibility of fighting terrorism here in this country and simultaneously setting up an independent watchdog group, Office of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.
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No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
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It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.
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Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure
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'We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.'
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Sport implies many positive attributes simultaneously. Along with health, it also shows stamina and fair play.
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Religion is the most effective system ever devised for enabling the few to terrify and enslave the many while simultaneously amassing great power and wealth.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.
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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
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