In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I began to go into samadhi, not just occasionally, but every day many times a day until I reached a point where… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Salvakalpa samadhi is like a sea of perfect light; nirvikalpa samadhi is no light, no darkness, no way to describe it. Absorption… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
These questions can only be answered in absorption, because there are no answers. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force… — Maximilian Bircher-Benner Copy Share Image
When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
