There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body--and now as then the issues of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean. In meditation, I feel… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A silkworm was struggling out of the cocoon and an ignorant man saw it battling as if in pain, so he went… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
“The world has its own ways of treating us like what we will never be, but want to be. It relinquishes its… — Annie Ali Copy Share Image
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of… — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“A man's life is his whole life, not the last glimmering snuff of the candle; and this, I say, is considerable, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Relaxation is one of the most complex phenomena - very rich, multidimensional. All these things are part of it: let-go, trust, surrender,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not quite right to describe One Taste as a "consciousness" or an "awareness," because that's a little too heady, too… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
We should try to become better people, ethically speaking, reflect upon ourselves and our very limited existences and develop a sense of… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
With stillness comes the benediction of peace”. “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I gave up meat when I was 18, and it was an ethical decision. I loved the taste, and went on holiday… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man,… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
“In a lifeworld, where we can be what we are, and not what people expect us to be, we can escape a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going to the gym and… — Eric Dane Copy Share Image
But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path:… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
We are not alone. Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a ‘great cloud… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan and of our mortal… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Wretched are the poor that sell their hopes instead of a filling meal part of a day or a pail... and a… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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