“We have two essential strategies for coping: the way of avoidance or the way of attention.”

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Three, Brains Changing, Minds Changing

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American writer 1938–2008

Carlos Gershenson (1978) Mexican researcher

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“Rossini was gentle with her. "In one way or another, we all have to cope with the essential solitude of being human, whether we're celibate or married."
"If you're a good person, doesn't God fill your loneliness?"
"He fills it, I think, with a divine discontent."”

Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer

Cardinal Luca Rossini and his daughter Luisa Ortega in Ch. 7
Eminence (1998)

“Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.”

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“There are two things that go on in art. There's getting to the essential material and a design that's inherent in the use of material, and also an essential level of expressiveness, a precise way of saying something rather than a complicated way.”

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Source: Color, Format and Abstract Art' (1977), pp. 99 – 105

“There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings.”

Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Karma

“But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.”

Andrew Wiles (1953) British mathematician

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“Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being”

Paul Tillich book The Courage to Be

Source: The Courage to Be

“As the French say, aimer est souffrir, to love is to suffer, and therefore, to say that love is essential to the Being of God is to say that in one way or another suffering is essential to his nature. That is to say something our forefathers would have declined to accept. They would have retorted that God, as Father, must be above or beyond suffering. If, however, we take seriously the declaration "God is love," how can we avoid the entailment that suffering is essential to the divine Being?”

Geddes MacGregor

He Who Lets Us Be: A Theology of Love (1975), p. 4

“The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“It isn’t in the way we wield a sword, but in the dialogue we hold that could avoid a war.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance

“We have two essential strategies for coping: the way of avoidance or the way of attention.”

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