The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are seeking for security, certainty, your eyes will become closed. And you will be less and less surprised and you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner… — William James Copy Share Image
“To insist on a certain outcome--one outcome--is to deny yourself the surprise experiences life was going to give you--the things you didn't… — Samara O'Shea Copy Share Image
Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason.… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
By surrendering, you create an energy field of receptivity for the solution to appear. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I do think there would be a receptivity to somebody who campaigned in a straightforward, cohesive way, supporting an increase in the… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“You can convert this human system into absolute receptivity, where you can perceive life in ways that you have never believed possible.… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Open to receive. Dance with the fading grasses. Nourish your Soul, as the leaves surrender to all the beauty of the fall.… — Ulonda Faye Copy Share Image
Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
It is not a pumping-in from the outside that gives wisdom; it is the power and extent of your inner receptivity that… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image