The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
“Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.” — Oliver Bowden Copy Share Image
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His Name with the Father in conjunction with doing His works.… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
This is where we go our seperate ways. Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
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