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Tag Name "Busyness" (29)

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Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your inner life, from the flow of your own thoughts, and turned far too much towards the outside world.
Hilary Mantel
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Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.
Kevin DeYoung
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Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.
Mark Buchanan
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Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
Bill Hybels
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Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.
Alan Cohen
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Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.
Brigid Schulte
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When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
George Carey
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I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.
James Fox
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Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.
Julia Cameron
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Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.
Mason Cooley
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Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is yet to be learned. And much of the best thinking is done alone-in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors. It is why we say we need to get away-to escape from clutter and busyness-to hear ourselves think.
Robert Fulghum
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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.
Alan Watts
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
Ann Voskamp
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
Dallas Willard
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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
Gunter Grass
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I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.
Hume Cronyn
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Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.
Josef Pieper
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When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.
Kevin DeYoung
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I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.
Marjorie Bowen
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Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
Mary Oliver
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The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.
Oswald Chambers
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Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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