Quotes About Alignment

Being a servant of God means striving to align my will to that of the Master. I desire to unify my will with God's will within my own life and to delight in that unification. Rabbi Gamliel used to say: "Do His will as if it were your will that He may do your will as if it were His will.

in so many areas of life, Nature had made it agreeable for man to do what was virtuous.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

Ikigai is the overlap of what you want to do, what you ought to do, and what you have to do.

Ultimately, you try to fit your personnel and what you can do as well into what you run.

The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the persuadee.

A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.

A philosophy is important so that everyone is on the same page and there's a consistency of message.

As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it's great.

I love the physicality of my job and how my mind and body are most happy when I'm expressing and moving. My face was always secondary to body alignment and the dynamism of making a moment come alive.

My editor picked out the name she wanted. I was either going to be Kim Harrison or Lisa Harrison, because she wanted me shelved right next to Hamilton.

I'm pretty picky about what I do and who I work with, for better or for worse.

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

It's easy to look at where your pieces are now and place the next one nearby.

And an integrated life is one where you're able to fit the different pieces of your life together in seamless fashion.

Pilates is amazing. It makes you conscious of how you have been doing something incorrectly for so long, even something as simple as just standing there.

Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.

I wasn't brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on - Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur'an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.

I don't understand how you can have product-market fit and not a lot of people wanting your product. The two go hand-in-hand.

And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.

On the deepest level, I know my body is on my side.

When done well, rest is a conscious act of worship and a means of holy transformation. Setting aside time to rest is setting aside time to become set apart. When we focus on Him in our rest, we become realigned with His heartbeat. We become restored to His image. Dedicating our rest, focusing it heavenward, turns it transcendent.

When we live His ways, we outline His image and trace the truths of His kingdom before a watching world.