Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi;… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
i realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until… — Kelly Williams Brown Copy Share Image
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, or whatsoever else ... was increate and eternal. And as for the place of… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
My work speaks of the finite and the infinite, of the macroscopic and the microscopic, the internal and external, by the masculine… — Ernesto Neto Copy Share Image
Anybody that's asked, I've counseled that they not expand Medicaid eligibility. I've been critical of any expansion because you know what Washington… — Tom Price Copy Share Image
We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I am often tempted to think of success in terms that are defined by others: records sold, popularity gained, album reviews, etc.… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The common ground where the activities of God and man become one is the motive of perfect love; for in the last… — Frank C. Lockwood Copy Share Image
Unquenchable is a worthy successor to Cadillac Desert that ably demonstrates how our most valuable resource is being squandered, ignored, and flushed… — Terry Tamminen Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out… — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image