... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends, even though you appreciate them… — Shunryu Suzuki 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
Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge. — Rollo May 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
“Spiritual sensitivity is not a form of sickness. It is a state where one‘ s spiritual antenna becomes so hyperactive that it… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a… — Chris Kraus 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
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
In order to reprogram the subconscious mind, you need to relax the body. Release the tension. Let the emotions go. Get to… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
“Pausing to implement breathwork throughout the day, places you in a more receptive state of flow. Your mind becomes clearer and your… — Robin S. Baker 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
Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very… — Rajneesh 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
“The attitudes of receptivity are various, and Will had sincerely tried many of them. He was not excessively fond of wine, but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged… — Russell Boyd 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
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike… — Margaret Mead 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
“The wise person is there not to be walked over but to stand up for the actual truth, to call the other… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist… — Rollo May 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
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no point in reading anything until your mind is fully clean and receptive. Mind’s tendency is to interpret things the… — Shunya Copy Share Image
Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
“When working on other commitments, "the work that needs to be made" is relentlessly harassing me, whispering in my ear about what… — Kate Kretz 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
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
Part of it has to do with the discipline of being actively receptive. At the core of this receptivity is a process… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
“Extrasensory abilities are naturally developed within us by being more receptive to the subtler and finer messages around us. We all have… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“The key to receiving what you’re manifesting is to exist in the state of already having it. Ask yourself how you would… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
God is beyond definition. But according to one's own vision or receptivity, one will define God in one's own way. Some will… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I entered the market around the time when there was getting to be less snobbery about the difference between feature… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that… — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
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