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  • When you can command the nagual you have a great deal of power, and people know it intuitively. They feel if they can plunge themselves into the nagual they can get anything they want in the tonal.

    Buddhism   People   Want  
  • Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

    War   Army   Safety  
    Sun, Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.156, Aegitas
  • The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union. To love somebody is not just a strong feeling-it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

    Love   Strong   Lying  
  • That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2000). “Sister of My Heart”, Anchor
  • The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

    Pain   Moving   Knowing  
  • The public is really not kept abreast, and our leaders are not clear and forthright about what the terms of engagement are right now - that we really have no choice except to undertake a wartime scale mobilization, but a mobilization knowing that we can actually fix this. It's only a disaster if we continue to plunge headlong into the problem, which is only accelerating in spite of everything that the Democrats have been willing to say and do about it.

    Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com
  • Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

    Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.30, New Directions Publishing
  • He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.

    People   Plunge  
    Kate Ross (2012). “Cut to the Quick: Julian Kestrel #1”, p.49, Felony & Mayhem Press
  • Be not the slave of your own past.

    Past   Slave   Plunge  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.106, David R. Godine Publisher
  • Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.

    Self   Serenity   Desire  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.45, Manonmani Publishers
  • Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

    Mind   Poetic   Faculty  
    Giambattista Vico (1961). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”
  • I gaze lovingly at "Hilal" a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God's hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river but we are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current.

    Rivers   Mirrors   Hands  
  • The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something that works at all they plunge ahead with it and ignore its weak spots... scientists are just as bad as the rest of the public in following fads and being influenced by mass enthusiasm.

  • Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

    Love Is   Knives   Plunge  
  • Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.

    Forever   Saint   Moments  
  • Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.

    Names   Wife   Swim  
  • The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

    "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. III), 1939.
  • Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

  • Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

    Age   Peculiar   Gains  
    "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds". Book by Charles Mackay, 1841.
  • Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

    Patience   Hands   Water  
    Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.43, Canongate Books
  • A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the labor, and the struggle, represented in this vast catacomb of books. Who could dream, by the placid waters that issue from the level mouths of brooks into the lake, all the plunges, the whirls, the divisions, and foaming rushes that had brought them down to the tranquil exit? And who can guess through what channels of disturbance, and experiences of sorrow, the heart passed that has emptied into this Dead Sea of books?

    Dream   Struggle   Book  
    Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company
  • It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?

    Yarn   Labyrinth   Mazes  
    "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 36, Journal entry (August 1, 1835), 1978.
  • Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

    "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
  • The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal.

  • Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

    War   Fall   People  
    Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.169, Shambhala Publications
  • It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.

    Nature   Moon   Clouds  
    Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield0: In Three Volumes”, p.265
  • There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.

    John James Audubon (1869). “The Life of John James Audubon: The Naturalist”, p.328
  • Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

    Life   Fall   Writing  
  • Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!

    Teacher   Believe   Sound  
    Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”
  • Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

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