Quotes About Consensual

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

Is reality a consensual hallucination? And is a nervous breakdown in fact a refusal to consent? Go on, don't be shy, tell me what you think.

I suppose I can understand her wanting to hide from Neil...¨ I began, my mind spinning. Because she was Dhampir, Moroi could have gotten her pregnant. Well, a human could have as well, but most people in the mainstream Moroi world weren't taking after Adrian and me. ¨But why Nina? Especially since they were so close? Unless... oh.¨ My heart sank. ¨Maybe... maybe whatever happened wasn't consensual.¨

The traumatized individual lives outside time, in his or her own separate reality, unable to relate to the consensual reality of others. The remembering quality of mindfulness counters this tendency.

It was a mutual relationship.

The familiar world of substantial objects and enduring persons is, according to the dhamma theory, a conceptual construct fashioned by the mind out of the raw data provided by the dhammas. The entities of our everyday frame of reference possess merely a consensual reality derivative upon the foundational stratum of the dhammas.

The mistake that I made was that I was engaged in a consensual relationship with a woman who was not my wife. That is a mistake for which I am very sorry.

high taxation was not regarded in these years as an affront. On the contrary, steep rates of progressive income tax were seen as a consensual device to take excess resources away from the privileged

In 2016, the sheriff in Bingham County, Idaho, told a local television station: "The majority of our rapes—not to say we don't have rapes, we do—but the majority of our rapes that are called in, are actual consensual sex.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Highly familistic, consensual cultures have been the norm throughout history and the world. Modern Europe has been the oddball.

Remember, the economy wasn't really global then, and it depended upon private money institutions called banks, gold reserves, and the value of physical money—actual coins and pieces of paper that were supposed to be worth something. It was all a consensual hallucination, of course, and in the 1930s, the hallucination turned nightmare.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

You inch up through predictable behavior, and by avoiding anything problematic. This is how it intersects with the Consensual Economic Order.

Of course, there are things that are indifferent to human opinion – gravity, the moondriven motion of the tides, the boiling point of water. But the finer details of reality – the state of a marriage, artistic merit, a person's true nature – have something delicate and consensual about them.

I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and especially between writers and readers of autobiography. The reader of an autobiography consumes the life of the author, and the author, in turn, consumes the life of the reader, that portion of it surrendered to reading, or listening to, the autobiography.