“If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery,… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
There is no soul; there is only consciousness, the highest thing man ever has! Losing the conscious means to die! Death is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The real thing is that you are suffering from your expectations. When they are not fulfilled - and they are never going… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“If there is a state where the soul can find a resting-place secure enough to establish itself and concentrate its entire being… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“When you consider how great and immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence - so great and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural,… — David Fontana Copy Share Image
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
“…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“What am I to God? Nothing, a murky shadow. My passage on this earth is too rapid to leave any traces; it… — Luis Buñuel Copy Share Image
It is time that we allow the Word of God, not the glamorized lies of Hollywood to become the cornerstone of our… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“One of the misconceptions about atheism is that it somehow means someone denies the possibility of a deity. In all actuality, it… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“this world’s a goddamn twilight zone — people wired wrong, hearts half-asleep. so i try to move through it with a little… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Mariac tells us about the books he's read, the painters he's liked, the plays he's seen. He finds himself by looking in… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Today, in a staggeringly complex and diverse world, the overarching biblical narrative that includes creation, fall, redemption and fulfillment has frequently been… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
