I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
“It is the task of San shamans to activate their supernatural potency, to cause it to ‘boil’ up their spines until it… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
I've always loved listening to music on my own, but there's another side of me that is just fascinated by... like Goa… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams--… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I have some sort of performing gene that's just there and I cannot explain it but I want to connect with people… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in particular the phases of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances,… — William James Copy Share Image
“Those, therefore, who effect to despise "profane" Science are themselves despicable. It is their own incapacity for true Thought of any serious… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Wow,” Ryan said, taking the excedo in from his bare feet to his worn jeans and wrinkled T-shirt. “Protesting showers?” “Bite me.”… — Sydney Croft Copy Share Image
With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
“Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the… — Ivan M. Granger Copy Share Image
Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids… — Paul van Dyk Copy Share Image
When you're making your living as a writer or an artist or a musician, you kind of live in a trance. You're… — Stephen R. Bissette Copy Share Image
'Fire' was the most difficult and challenging track. It has the effects of trance music, which is not easy to create and… — Rajesh Roshan Copy Share Image
In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
To begin to use cultural forces for the good of our daughters we must first shake ourselves awake from the cultural trance… — Jeanne Elium Copy Share Image
Being like 14 and 15 years old, listening to trance music in my home, I just had this fantasy of going to… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
We might say that the dream tranforms the dreamer; that it possesses the ability to 'initiate', to bestow new meaning, to motivate… — Andrew D. Chumbley Copy Share Image
Physically? If you've got really beautiful eyes, you have me in a trance right from the beginning. As far as personality, I'm… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
Trance is the kind of music that puts smiles on peoples faces. Its designed to make people feel great and forget about… — Zahid Abas Copy Share Image
[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Marital partners often trigger in each other resourceless states—negative trance-like experiences in which partners feel devoid of satisfactory solutions. Carol Kershaw maps… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If people knew how badly animals were treated in today's factory farms, if people knew how completely confined and immobilized these creatures… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
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