What is incarnation? Incarnation is self-reflection. The universe that we are in is constructed, is a reflection of ourselves. We picked the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
Living under capitalism, I like learning to feel comfortable with activity that does not result in success — since non-success is the… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“What is causing this mysterious perpetual air of inconvenience to slowly engulf the evening. It is not merely emptiness but an awakening… — Ranjani Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“It wasn't night, it was simply darkness, with me in the middle hoping all the while that time was carrying on flowing,… — Marie Darrieussecq Copy Share Image
“Every dimension looks at itself through the eyes of other shapes in the Universe. Only in the senses, and through the senses,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“But when I want to draw close to someone, and fully commit myself, then my misery is assured. Then I am nothing,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He felt closer to dust, he said, then to light, air or water. There was nothing he found so unbearable as a… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth:… — Alfred Worden Copy Share Image
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Maybe it is nothingness that is real and our entire dream is nonexistent, but in that case we feel that these phrases… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“So we’re surrounded by absolutely nothing,” said Rincewind. “Total nothing.” He hesitated. “There’s a word for it,” he said. “It’s what you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I hate you!” I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward, diving toward the ground at more than two… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
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It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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“Breath (from the book Blue Bridge) Whispering to myself With every step I take, Trying out names, for I know There is… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Existence itself stands in need of nothing, for it lacks nothing, whereas everything else needs it, because outside of it there is… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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