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| 25654e5 | Las habitaciones de hotel de 34.000 dolares por noche, la hamburguesa cubierta de polvo de oro, que ofrecia Richard Nouveau en el Wall Street Burger Shoppe por 175 dolares, el martini de 10.000 dolares del hotel Algonquin, que se servia con un diamante en la copa... | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| c985dac | Segun una "historia del coaching" que se puede leer en internet, el sector de los coaches o entrenadores le debe su enorme crecimiento en la decada de 1990 a "que se acabo 'el empleo vitalicio'."35 La gran telefonica AT&T organizo en 1994 un evento de motivacion para su personal de San Francisco, llamado "Exito 94", que empezo el mismo dia en que la empresa anuncio un plan para despedir a quince mil trabajadores durante los dos anos siguien.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 7cfdf5b | Saturday afternoon she deboned chicken breasts and put the raw meat aside; then she simmered the bones with green onions and squashed garlic and ginger. She mixed ground pork with diced water chestnuts and green onions and soy sauce and sherry, stuffed the wonton skins with this mixture, and froze them to be boiled the next day. Then she made the stuffing for Richard's favorite egg rolls. It was poor menu planning- Vivian would never have s.. | olivia-tschetter vegetables ingredients spices | Susan Gilbert-Collins | |
| 15c1bd6 | In his book 'God and the Universe of Faiths,' British theologian John Hick makes a compelling argument. Before Copernicus, he says, earthlings believed they occupied the center of the universe - and why not? Earth was the place from which they saw everything else. It was the ground under their feet, and as far as they could tell everything revolved around them. Then Copernicus proposed a new map of the universe with the sun at the center an.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 8315e7f | The mistrust and resentment they brought with them, the way tribes feared anything new, anything from outside the camp's tight confines. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 63b781e | If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet? | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 1ae3ec1 | At the very least, most of us need someone to tell our stories to. At a deeper level, most of us need someone to help us forget ourselves, a little or a lot. The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| a222e49 | Jonah, once he got turned around, brought a by-the-book message of doom to the people of Nineveh; God decided to convert it into a message of life. God wins. As Barbara Brown Taylor writes, "If Jesus' own example is to be trusted, then following the Word of God may not always mean doing what is in the book. Instead it may mean deviating from what is in the book in order to risk bringing the Word to life."6" | Greg Garrett | ||
| 1e2b7c5 | I read science for the same reason I read theology: because I am a seeker after truth. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 7b9377d | By most estimates, 70 percent of our sense receptors are located in our eyes. When they are working, they can take over most of the duties of all other senses. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| c6a001b | As Barbara Brown Taylor puts it, "in an age of information overload . . . the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of incarnation, by which God saves the lives of those whose intellectual assent has turned them dry as dust, who have run frighteningly low on the bread of life, who are dying to know more God in their bodies. Not more about God. More God." 5" -- | Rachel Held Evans | ||
| dc8bda8 | The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you," he said, "by the grace of God." | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| c1bfc6d | What if I could learn to trust my feelings instead of asking to be delivered from them? What if I could follow one of my great fears all the way to the edge of the abyss, take a breath, and keep going? Isn't there a chance of being surprised by what happens next? Better than that, what if I could learn how to stay in the present instead of letting my anxieties run on fast-forward? | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 1b07061 | Maybe you have to be really, really tired before you can answer questions like those. Maybe you have to be deeply discouraged by never having time for all the things that need doing in this world--not just the important things, like spending time with the people you love, taking care of your health, and engaging in purposeful work (paid or unpaid) that gives you a chance to participate in the repairing of the world, but also the minor but n.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 47af16a | the degree to which we believe our faith is what makes us human is the same degree to which we will question the humanity of those who do not share our faith.7 | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 1d2d74b | as she went. Her head bent so far underneath her that I feared her neck would break. Finally the Jeep stopped at the edge of the water. Ed and I helped the ranger unchain her and flip her back over. Then | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 2aedf6f | So of course when it came time to decide what to do with my life, I decided to go to seminary. What else do you do when you are in love with God? | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| cce80b8 | We wanted More. We wanted a deeper sense of purpose. We wanted a stronger sense of God's presence. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| bc2f0d2 | Somewhere along the line we bought--or were sold--the idea that God is chiefly interested in religion. We believed that God's home was | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| a70e834 | How many times since then have I rejected Love because it did not present itself the way I expected, in a form acceptable to me? | love | Barbara Brown Taylor | |
| 3642914 | about that too, ma'am," he said, writing up her citation, "but what made" | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 2348fa8 | A priest is a priest, no matter where she happens to be. Her job is to recognize the holiness in things and hold them up to God. Her job is to speak in ways that help other people recognize the holiness in things too. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| a720eeb | Prayer, according to Brother David, is waking up to the presence of God no matter where I am or what I am doing. When I am fully alert to whatever or whoever is right in front of me; when I am electrically aware of the tremendous gift of being alive; when I am able to give myself wholly to the moment I am in, then I am in prayer. Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enoug.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 51af39e | To be a priest," writes Barbara Brown Taylor, "is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are."38" | Rachel Held Evans | ||
| d39c3c9 | I spent a great deal of time trying to be good, but was good the same as whole? | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| eabf777 | I was so busy serving the Divine Presence that we never got any time alone anymore. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 2a784bb | when we run from darkness, how much do we really know about what we are running from? If we turn away from darkness on principle, doing everything we can to avoid it because there is simply no telling what it contains, isn't there a chance that what we are running from is God? | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| c3e0da3 | If we could learn to be attentive every moment of our lives, he said, we would discover the world anew. We would discover that the world is completely different from what we had believed it to be. Because blindness taught him that, he listened with disbelief as the most earnest people he knew spoke about the terrible "night" into which his blindness had pushed him. "The seeing do not believe in the blind," he concluded, which may help expla.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 6bba10c | Barbara Brown Taylor, an Episcopal priest, decided to leave her clergy position in part because of the church's failure to administer that grace: One thing that had always troubled me was the way people disappeared from church when their lives were breaking down. Separation and divorce were the most common explanations for long absences, but so were depression, alcoholism, job loss, and mortal illness. One new widow told me that she could n.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| e0d418f | Even the moon gets to put its feet up once a month. Man in the Moon, of course. If it was a Woman in the Moon, she'd never sit down. Well, would she? I | Allison Pearson | ||
| d0de57a | There are some men who will always prefer to deal with another man, any man, rather than a woman ... I can see him struggling to place me: I'm not married to him, clearly I'm not his mother, I didn't go to school with his sister and I'm sure as hell not going to go to bed with him. So what, he must be asking himself as he chews on his pigeon, is this girl doing here? What is she for? | work-ethic | Allison Pearson | |
| 1e7f643 | Women used to have time to make mince pies and had to fake orgasms. Now we can manage the orgasms, but we have to fake the mince pies. And they call this progress. | Allison Pearson | ||
| cc08e7d | But to keep thinking things will get better when this happens or that happens isn't helpful. You'll spend your entire life waiting for the next thing to make you happy. This is your life: whether it's what you planned or not, it's where you are right now. It won't always be good, but it won't always be this shit. Life is hard and then sometimes it isn't. | Janet Hoggarth | ||
| 05e7496 | means they'll mostly be Glasgow - and you | Ian Rankin | ||
| 3757483 | It led on and on; vistas of forgotten metal; moribund, stiff in a thousand attitudes of mortality; with not a rat, not a mouse; not a bat, not a spider. Only the Lamb, sitting in his high chair with a faint smile upon his lips; alone in the luxury of his vaulted chamber, where the red carpet was like blood, and the walls were lined with books that rose up...up... volume after volume until the shadows engulfed them. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 66107ec | Meanwhile the castle rolled. Great walls collapsed, one into another. The colours of the tracts were horrible. The vilest green. The most hideous purple. Here the foul shimmering of rotting fungi - there a tract of books alive with mice. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| bffb11f | Before man's bravery I bow my head: More so when valour is unnatural And fear, a bat between the shoulder-blades Flaps its cold webs - but I am ill at ease With propaganda glory, and the lies Of statesmen and the lords of slippery trades. - May 1941. | war propaganda | Mervyn Peake | |
| a7909dd | The castle was as silent as some pole-axed monster. Inert, breathless, spread-eagled. It was a night that seemed to prove by the consolidation of its darkness and its silence the hopelessness of any further dawn. There was no such thing as dawn. It was an invention of the night's or of the old-wives of the night - a fable, immemorially old - recounted century after century in the eternal darkness; retold and retold to the gnomic children in.. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 71bebdc | The artist and writer Mervyn Peake, invalided out of military service, joined the Design, Poster and Visualising Group of the Ministry of Information in 1942. | Laura Brandon | ||
| 70e890d | what haunts the heart will, when it is found, leap foremost, blinding the eye and leaving the main of Life in darkness. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| ea198f5 | Forse non siete a conoscenza, ma vostra madre aveva il sangue cattivo. Molto cattivo. Oppure sognate degli ermellini. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| c2c3edc | The accent was of so weird a lilt that at first Steerpike could not recognize more than one sentence in three, but he had quickly attuned himself to the original cadence and as the words fell into place Steerpike realized that he was staring at a poet. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 6fbf7a6 | Mind the corner of that chair, my very dear Mrs Slagg, and oh! my dear woman, you must look where you're going, by all that's circumspect, you really must. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| d89d280 | Here and there a thin beam of light threaded the warm brooding dusk and was filled with slowly moving motes like an attenuate firmament of stars revolving in grave order. | Mervyn Peake |