What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“You could think that you had won. But I woke up, I came back to myself. You won nothing. I transcended you… — Tamara Thiel Copy Share Image
The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
“More I try to straighten my life, more I'm overcome with the paradox I am. Once the sea attains its vastness, it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind.… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Aurora was romantic and brooding and heartbreaking and volatile all at once. In the age of arena rock, Daisy Jones & The… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
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“The modern architects are incorrect in their thinking. Ornament is not a crime. It is tactile, invigorating, life-sustaining, and human.” — Kristen Wagner Copy Share Image
The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Copy Share Image
The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
