Quotes by Opposites The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be. Adyashanti opposites letting-go trying Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do. Agatha Christie opposites mean thinking Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand. Agnieszka Radwanska opposites winning play The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known. Aiden Wilson Tozer waiting opposites believe Whoever will listen will hear the speaking heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to listen, for listening is not today a part of popular religion. We are at the opposite end of the pole from there. Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. Aiden Wilson Tozer opposites men heaven To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience. Aiden Wilson Tozer obedience errors opposites I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action. Akshay Kumar risk jumping opposites The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general. Alain Badiou communication real opposites Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are. Alain de Botton anxiety opposites thinking And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. Alan Watts belief opposites attitude But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites. Alan Watts choices opposites play A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites. Alan Watts spirituality holy opposites Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever. Alan Watts anxiety opposites forever The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it. Alanis Morissette confused opposites song I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true. Alanis Morissette opposites fame The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love. Albert Camus opposites men life ... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe. Albert Einstein opposites trying reality For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave. Albert Pike brave wise opposites I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me. Alden Ehrenreich exciting opposites people Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience. Aldous Huxley mystical-experiences opposites heaven «1234567891011»