When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
My book in a nutshell is about the deleterious effects of patriarchy down through the ages for women and for men and how the Bible dismantles this fallen social system. I'm completely persuaded that patriarchy is not the Bible's message, but that it runs counter to God's vision for humanity. It produces tension and disunity between men and women that run contrary to God's vision for his world.
Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.
When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.
Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
Tension of opposites.
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.
There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.
A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest.
There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth
Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.
As a person, I do not like tension in squabbles; I also do not like being on tenterhooks. When I am in love, it's the same. Especially with regards to love, I want very much to protect it.
Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.
. . . While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.
I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.
I believe that the most important thing. . . is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.
Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.
I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's interesting calling it "beat music". That's quite true, the rhythm is up to the fore, it's got a slap bass, and it's got "funk" in the title. But I think there's always a level of irony when we did those kind of things.
Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension.