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When thou a fast would'st keep, Make not thy homage cheap, By publishing its signs to every eye; But let it be between Thyself and the Unseen, So shall it gain acceptance from on high.
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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.
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When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't understand or are not committed are not helpful.
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When Venus said, Spell no for me, N-O, Dan Cupid wrote with glee, And smiled at his success: Ah, child, said Venus, laughing low, We women do not spell it so, We spell it Y-E-S.
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When we are accustomed to use bad reasons for proving natural effects, we are not willing to receive good reasons when they are discovered.
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When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
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When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
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When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.
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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.
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When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called 'Strategy.' I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.
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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
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When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
Source: The Black Unicorn: Poems (1995) 25 -
When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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When we're playing, when we're really, really going... you're just in the moment. You're not thinking about yesterday, tomorrow, or anything else. The brain gets out of the way. Your body just does what it knows how to do, and it's just... it's like a religion.
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