Encountered Quotes

“Police officers are among the most corrupt people that I have encountered in life.”
― Steven Magee

“Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) is the most fascinating subject that I have ever encountered in human health!”
― Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

“Imagine, if you will:
Meradinis!
The stuff myths are made of! The Turtle Island of the stars – home planet to the fearsome and once legendary Corsairs. The very name of this world immediately grabbed the imaginations of young boys and girls, and universally mesmerize dreamers and romantics alike. The truth though was less romantic – and as reality so often demonstrates in real life - instead rather ugly and brutal. The Corsairs were not corn-ball comics that went about with parrots on their shoulders, saying “Arr!” to everything they encountered. They were anything but. Behind the Corsairs and their culture lay a history fraught with a struggle to survive, a vengefulness and a cruelty – and a drive to survive by preying upon others that struck fear into the hearts of neighboring fringe worlds.”
― Christina Engela, Dead Beckoning

“I am probably the most dangerous person that the electrical, electronics and wireless industries have ever encountered.”
― Steven Magee

“Government buildings are often the highest sources of environmental radiation that I have encountered in society.”
― Steven Magee

“I regard police internal affairs as some of the most toxic people that I have encountered in life.”
― Steven Magee

“I was lone working on the most dangerous electrical equipment I had encountered in my career at the Desoto Solar Farm.”
― Steven Magee

“Looking back now, I wonder if I was observant enough. Certainly I was alert---I always am, during fieldwork---but I suspect that the unfamiliarity of the landscape, the high, dark mountains swaddled in snow, lulled me into a belief that no living thing could accost me here, certainly nothing fae, creatures I have spent my career associating with greenery and water and life.
Fortunately, my reflexes are sharp. The instant the light flared through the trees, I halted and gripped my coin. It was a grayish light with no warmth in it, like a star. A wind moved through the trees, and there came a whisper of bells. Had I not been touching metal, I might have been bespelled, and as it was my head still spun a little, but I am used to brushing against faerie enchantments and stood my ground.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“I encountered two police officers and a suspect struggling at the side of the road. The suspect was calling out for help. When the police officers saw me video recording them, they made me stop the recording by making me move my car!”
― Steven Magee

“The Liturgy is not just a sermon. It is not something to be listened to or watched. The Liturgy never grows old. Its cup does not go dry. No one can say he has got to know it or got used to it because he has understood it once or once been carried away by the attraction of it. The faithful are not like spectators or an audience following something that makes a greater or lesser emotional impression on them. The faithful partake in the Divine Liturgy. The mystery is celebrated in each of the faithful, in the whole of the liturgical community.
We do not see Christ externally, we meet Him within us.
Christ takes shape in us. The faithful become Christs by grace.
What happens is a miraculous interpenetration by grace and an identification without confusion. The whole man, in body and in spirit, enters the unalloyed world of the uncreated grace of the Trinity. And at the same time he receives into himself Christ, with the Father and the Holy Spirit. The whole of God is offered to man,
"He makes His home with
him" (John 14:23); and the whole man is offered to God:
"let us commend ourselves and each other and all our life unto Christ our God." "God united with and known to gods.”
― Archimandrite Vasileios, Hymn of Entry: Liturgy and Life in the Orthodox Church

“Challenges - whether they're the ones faced in the past, are confronting us now, or may be encountered in the future - force us to examine our fundamental values and beliefs.”
― Kouzes/Posner, Leadership Challenge 4th E