Walk away from your own preoccupations. . . and see the perishing multitudes.
How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the narcissistic preoccupation with getting the love we think 'works' for us. The point of love is to make us grow, not to make us immediately happy. Many of us have forsworn the chance for the deepest love in reaching out for the easier one.
When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.
The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.
Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation. . . discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
. . . we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux.
At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.
The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. . . . any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. . . . there is no great value in consumption itself.
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.
