In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think I affiliate with somebody like Ben Howard. He's quite a bit younger than I am, but I think what he's… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
Brexit has changed everything in British politics - it has blown open a cosy, zombie-like closed world of Westminster parliamentary politics. It… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
Just as some of the most ardent political ideologues in the West are young people, revolutionaries, the '60s generation, - in Islam… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that… — David Geffen Copy Share Image
It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts:… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
This country, the Republic of Indonesia, does not belong to any group, nor to any religion, nor to any ethnic group, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged -… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
There's a grand tradition of a lot of interesting stuff that happens to these post-presidents. Especially in this day and age where… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
I have been able to watch the Clintons and The Clinton Foundation; Al Gore and what he did post-losing the whole Florida… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Midsomer' is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on… — John Nettles Copy Share Image
I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
I was never interested in the two-party system per se. I was interested in how authority was abused by government, and how… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It was just an honor for me to be doing the role of Miguel because I identify with him. I grew up… — Anthony Gonzalez Copy Share Image
While it may be impossible to 'disprove' the existence of some 'Higher Power' or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible — through… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
People substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was… — Francis Howgill Copy Share Image
Like other parents in this country, we want to give our children the best opportunities, to shower them with love, to teach… — Jennifer Chrisler Copy Share Image
The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
