#demon

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#angels #defense #demons #evil #experiences

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#believe #delight #demonstrates #having #leads

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#am #basing #conclusions #convinced #demonstrated

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#becomes #cases #communicator #demonstration #entranced

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me. ↗

— George Michael

#away #because #better #biggest #career

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#could #demonstration #dramatic #immediately #improvement

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#also #becoming #demons #feelings #found

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#any #crime #demons #faces #feeling

This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#against #ahead #away #demonstrates #friendly

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#being #black #confront #culture #demonic