“The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As Baba Ram Dass (his ‘spiritual name’), Richard Alpert explained human attachment as a ‘clue that there’s work to be done’ –… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Because I frequently encountered obstacles such as old, entrenched ideas, ongoing power struggles, or the lack of staff and money, I also… — Corinne McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and… — A. G. Mohan Copy Share Image
“Life is a combo of attachment and detachment. Love is the most natural thing and you are bound to get attached to… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Being anthropologically respectful of all faiths means being committed to none, and being left to drift without an anchor for one's most… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Leadership is detachment: detachment from material goods, detachment from feelings as well as personal detachment. To lead is to get rid of… — K. Von Novack Copy Share Image
I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The fear side can have us pull away and protect us, but it's really a withdrawal, a disassociation, a cutting off. Rather… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart,… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
“Detachment means you have disentangled yourself from the process that you call “body,” and from the process that you call “mind,” because… — Sadguru Copy Share Image
Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new… — Erich von Manstein Copy Share Image
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [...] The buried thought that he might… — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
“The path towards living in a spiritual manner begins by eliminating inculcated cultural biases, destroying personal illusions, and gratefully accepting the world… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“When you separate yourself from your thoughts and simply notice them with detachment, you remove some of the power they have over… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
Especially with iPhones, iPads and apps, there's just so much detachment that you're just flicking your fingers on a smooth surface to… — Tristan Perich Copy Share Image
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Is that bad? Detachment in the sense that I can't be going to every party, showing my face, talking to the press… — Priyanshu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“It registers that I am sitting there topless, but this body I am in doesn't feel like mine anymore so the half-nakedness… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management,… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
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