Alistair Crowley used to define magic as anything in which you can exercise your will in the world through the use of… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was… — Joey Reiman Copy Share Image
In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It's very rare to be in a state where there's nothing in, where you have no attachment to any idea or concept… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“What emerges, though, is the idea that perceptions, memories, associations and thoughts may need a resting mind in order to make their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If I had to guess what the new Etch-A-Sketch picture is going to be like, it's going to be considerably less to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Jim had spent most of his life alone. The solitary nature of his disability and the constant moving had made it difficult… — Bonnie Dee Copy Share Image
I'm aware of Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra and John Coltrane. My music cup runneth over. I try to encourage people: don't… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Leaving Europe in my mind wasn't the best thing; it's not the best way of having that political voice. But that's the… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
There are three forces--of the body, mind and feeling. Unless these are together, equally developed and harmonized, a steady connection cannot be… — Jeanne de Salzmann Copy Share Image
Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet—never, until this wet,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction,… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
In my opinion, Chief Justice Roberts put it best during his recent confirmation hearings. And he said, and I quote, "The framers… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by God for their… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers deliberately used the Bible as their guide. They tried to ensure that schools, likewise, use the Bible to teach… — Richard S. Wheeler Copy Share Image
An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is… — David van Dantzig Copy Share Image
He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was his journey to accept the strangeness of… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice songs, lots of jumping around and a few CDs, then we're missing it.… — Joel Houston Copy Share Image
DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Your tree pose is going crazy and you're falling; and your leg is burning; and it feels impossible to maintain any sort… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the… — Claudia Emerson Copy Share Image
To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“He had left a certain mode of life and chosen another and between that life and this a river ran, as impassable… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
