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1 " Christians often ask why God does not speak to them, as he is believed to have done in former days. When I hear such questions, it always makes me think of the rabbi who asked how it could be that God often showed himself to people in the olden days whereas nowadays nobody ever sees him. The rabbi replied: " Nowadays there is no longer anybody who can bow low enough." This answer hits the nail on the head. We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. The Buddhist discards the world of unconscious fantasies as useless illusions; the Christian puts his Church and his Bible between himself and his unconscious; and the rational intellectual does not yet know that his consciousness is not his total psyche. "
2 " The Bible tells us, " blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" , which means heaven that is the true world will become one's own when he discards his false mind completely. "
3 " He discards a quilt for fear of bugs. "
― Idries Shah , Caravan of Dreams
4 " When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher. "
― Frédéric Chopin
5 " i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. "
― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed
6 " Who am I? I am who I say I am and tomorrow someone else entirely. You are too nostalgic, you want memory to secure you, console you. The past is a bore. What matters is only oneself and what one creates from what one has learned. Imagination uses what it needs and discards the rest— where you want to erect a museum. Don't hoard the past, Astrid. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge. "
― Janet Fitch , White Oleander
7 " The fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods. "
― John Calvin
8 " When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , The Gay Science
9 " Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further. "
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
