The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding… — Yamada Koun Copy Share Image
Each creature walks a perfect earth. Each one gets the suffering and comfort that he needs. When ALL cravings and needs are… — Zeina Copy Share Image
“If there is one fable, which would seem entitled to escape the analysis, which we have undertaken of religious poems and sacred… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They breathe the spirit of benevolence for which Toscanelli was noted, and indicate the greatness of the man—a greatness decidedly in contrast… — Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober Copy Share Image
He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap.… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We may at once admit that any inference from the particular to the general must be attended with some degree of uncertainty,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It is sad when man’s unhappiness veils from him the smiling face of nature. The promise of the early morning was maintained.… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Those who make pictures of the Savior, who is God as well as man in one inseparable person, either limit the incomprehensible… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language is not in its obstructiveness. Exclusively viewed… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“{ The final resolutions at Robert Ingersoll 's funeral, quoted here } Whereas, in the order of nature -- that nature which… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
The time you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the best time you will spend on earth. Each moment that… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Jerusalem is the house of the one God, the capital of two peoples, the temple of three religions and she is the… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“The abnegation of empathy in the case of something as complex and variable as sexual taste is a dangerous thing. The particular… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's just what we saw in the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Dr. Walsh then listed eight lifestyle factors that have been shown to contribute to healthy aging. These include exercise, diet, time in… — Lewis Richmond Copy Share Image
“I call you Angel because, I honestly believe that God put an Angel on this earth just for me,” he admitted, cupping… — Kirsty Moseley Copy Share Image
“In the seeker-church movement the emphasis away from the use and explication of creedal confession is obvious, since the whole point is… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
As in nature, as in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me,… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of… — Sam Shoemaker Copy Share Image
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the… — Laurent Baheux Copy Share Image
“Thousands of mosquitoes had already bitten all of us on chest and arms and ankles. Then a bright idea came to me:… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“ Because I love you and I can’t get enough of you. That emotion ran deeper and deeper, like a river than… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“A traveler who had seen many countries, peoples and several of the earth’s continents was asked what attribute he had found in… — NIETZSCHE FRIEDRICH WILHELM Copy Share Image
Democracy in some ways is a very illogical political system. When you win an election, you have to preserve the institutions that… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
