Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
As starving men crave a crust of bread, as choking men thirst for water, so do the righteous yearn for the Holy… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how… — Ivar Giaever Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
If I found myself alone on planet Earth, no other humans, I would have sex with a monkey in like two minutes.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call… — Adrian Tan Copy Share Image
Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A question I would like to present to the world is: Where is the love? And what are we doing? Who's making… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Give yourself a break. Stop beating yourself up! Everyone makes mistakes, has setbacks and failures. You don't come with a book on… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from… — Gordon Dalbey Copy Share Image
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
![“When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are. [And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our…” quote by Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f6/adyashanti-1169_awareness_when-we-really-start-to-take-a-look-at-w_994665.jpg)
