An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating;… — Bankei Yotaku Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it? — David Bowie Copy Share Image
You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may… — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
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A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there:… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult,… — Amy Wright Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude,… — Brendan Kennelly Copy Share Image
This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings… — William Appleman Williams Copy Share Image
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
Graphic novels might really speak to one child who's struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
Layer upon layer, Italy's storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster's captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a… — Adrienne Mayor Copy Share Image
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