“[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.”
― Laura Esquivel, quote from Swift as Desire
“Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.”
― Laura Esquivel, quote from Swift as Desire
“there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.”
― Laura Esquivel, quote from Swift as Desire
“Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.”
― Laura Esquivel, quote from Swift as Desire
“...being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn't as wonderful as it seemed...being aware of what other people felt at every moment would come to cause him a lot of headaches, and huge disappointments in love.”
― Laura Esquivel, quote from Swift as Desire
Laura Esquivel
Born place: in Mexico D.F., Mexico
Born date September 30, 1950
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“The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception. It will not endure. But for the time it lasts it comes to heal. For true perception is a remedy with many names. Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one.”
― quote from A Course in Miracles
“Cel care creează nu-l poate iubi pe cel care critică. Există o diferență prea mare între cele două activități. Una este naștere, cealaltă chirurgie.”
― John Fowles, quote from Daniel Martin
“Never cry over anything that can't cry over you”
― John Marsden, quote from The Other Side of Dawn
“Life is a school of the spirit, Aidan,” Ruadh intoned with gentle insistence. “Learning is our soul’s requirement, and”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Byzantium
“في نمط الكينونة, لا يكون الإيمان -في المقام الأول- مجرد إيمان بأفكار معينة وإن كان من الممكن أن يتضمن هذا أيضا, إنما الإيمان- في المقام الأول- هو توجه داخلي, موقف, ولعله من الأنسب أن يقال إن شخصا ما في حالة الإيمان, على أن يقال إنه يملك إيمانا,يمكن ان الشخص في حالة ايمان بنفسه وبالأخرين, والمتدين في حالة إيمان بالله, والله في العهد القديم هو بالدرجة الأولى نفي للأصنام للآلهة التي كان الناس يملكونها.
وإيماني بنفسي وبالأخرين وبالجنس البشري يتضمن ايضا نوعا من اليقين, ولكنه يقين اساسه تجربتي الذاتية, وليس خضوعي لسلطة تملي عليّ نمطا معينا من الإيمان. إنه يقين الحقيقة التي قد يستحيل إثباتها بأدلة عقلية ملزمة, ومع ذلك فهي الحقيقة التي أنا على يقين منها لأن ثمة أدلة عليها من تجربتي الذاتية.
إذا كنت على يقين من أن شخصا ما تتوافر فيه صفات التكامل الإنساني فإنني لا استطيع أن اقيم الدليل على أن تكامله يمكن ان يستمر لآخر يوم في حياته.
وحتى لو حدث, فليس ثمة ما يستبعد احتمال اختلال التكامل لو امتدت الحياة به, إن يقين يقوم على معرفتي بالشخص الآخر, وعلى تجربتي الشخصية في الحب والتكامل الإنساني, وهذا النوع من المعرفة لا استطيع التوصل اليه إلا بقدر ما استطيع تنحية ذاتيتي ورؤية شخصية الإنسان الآخر كما هي, واستجلاء بناء قواه الداخلية, رؤيته في تفرده كما في انسانيته الشاملة في الوقت نفسه.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
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