Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Forgiveness entails the authentic acceptance of our own worthiness as human beings, the understanding that mistakes are opportunities for growth, awareness and… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden,… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Cultivation is of no use for the attainment of Tao. The only thing that one can do is to be free of… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man. — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image