We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof...."
These words, wrung from the very depths of his soul, surprised even Seigen himself. He had not risen in the world merely in order to satisfy his ambition, but in order to repudiate hierarchical society and the fixed class system.
Stichwörter: equality purpose society class status overcoming-obstacles hierarchy
I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho[ugh] popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho[ugh] I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.
Richard RumboldStichwörter: class-struggle class-warfare status
If you want drama, settle for the one who will change your relationship status. If you want love, wait for the one who will change your life.
Steve MaraboliStichwörter: life happiness love change drama status relationship
I do not belong to any spiritual group or tradition. I am just interested in exploring what it means to live with open eyes.
People in spiritual organizations also tend to get caught in ideas of how it should be, and in the need of the ego to create hierachies of power, status, roles, ambition and obidience.
Spiritual Masters teach on many different levels at the same time. Some people take what they can, and some take something deeper.
Stichwörter: power religion spirituality ego meditation status organizations
We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire.
Alain de BottonStichwörter: happiness self-knowledge achievements materialism desire possessions status anxiety
The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material accumulation that should instead be only one of many factors determining the direction of our lives under a more truthful, more broadly defined conception of ourselves.
Alain de BottonStichwörter: priorities self-knowledge materialism achievement status
Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.
prixieStichwörter: life live word others status enough single enjoy depends describe
A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: status sandwich rank social-standing
Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when he was surrounded by poverty and adversity and trusted him while he was the ruler of a great Empire. He was a man of spotless
character who always had confidence in himself and in God's help. No aspect of his life remained hidden nor was his death
a mysterious event.
Stichwörter: science life history peace confidence god death religion state trust atheist struggle adversity christian poverty islam muslim hidden jewish status lessons hindu empire muhammad-pbuh
Liking your own status in social networks is similar to kissing your own dick.
M.F. MoonzajerStichwörter: status dick liking
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