Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“... no one ever develops and achieves self-awareness in a vacuum, beyond all ears and systems. The period you grow up in… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to… — Amir Butler Copy Share Image
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's… — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
“Centuries of navel-gazing. Millennia of masturbation. Plato to Descartes to Dawkins to Rhanda. Souls and zombie agents and qualia. Kolmogorov complexity. Consciousness… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage, as well as full fidelity after marriage... Tears… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
You yourself deserve your affection & love.To be your self means you are choosing to be positive & you commit to be… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“This path of 'Akram' (step-less path to Self-realization) is a diversion road, it is not a path where others views are refuted… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time… — George Will Copy Share Image
As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige,… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
Trauma dissociates us from the parts of our body that are wounded, so we have to leave our whole body. It's a… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
For what we don't realize today is just what the typical self of every previous stage failed likewise to comprehend: this is… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
When you make that choice of stepping out and facing the issue of disclosure, you do create this kind of self-imposed negative… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
To have "It", the fortunate possessor must have that strange magnetism which attracts both sexes. He or she must be entirely unselfconscious… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
