I sit cross-legged on the rock The valleys and streams are cold and damp Sitting quietly is beautiful The cliffs are lost… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
I am thankful that there are different seasons in life and training. I have learned to embrace each season realizing how important… — Ryan Hall Copy Share Image
What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Our lives can be considered a sacred quest. It is a quest which may have begun in this lifetime or many lifetimes… — Vivianne Crowley Copy Share Image
Here's the problem - carbon dioxide doesn't contribute to smog and isn't a health threat. All of this is being done because… — Kenneth P. Green Copy Share Image
The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling,… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
She didn't care anymore... and she got no pleasure from the work she did, but she did it. Everything bored her. She… — Louise Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
“God helps them that help themselves.” When you begin to help yourself, which means to make the best of what is in… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience… — William James Copy Share Image
In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
“She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Buddhas can take you to the boundary line of meditation and samadhi. That is the only difference between meditation and samadhi. If… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“If we can tame or restrain our addiction to the blinding overabundance of technical widgets, we can “tool down” our mental frame.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children,… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
One of the rules that I always follow is that no matter how crazy characters may act, and no matter how absurd… — Glenn Howerton Copy Share Image
A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Seeing the play ( A Lie of the Mind ) clearly is part of why I wanted to direct it. I see… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles.… — Kyongho Copy Share Image
Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories.… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image