Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“We' too are carrying out 'our' worldly obligations, but how do 'we' do it? Without the sense of 'I-ness' (aham) and 'my-ness'… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly,… — Guido Palau Copy Share Image
“Vitragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments] is the only way to ‘swim’ across lifetimes.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“As long as one’s vision does not move towards the soul (Self is not realized), everything is just worldly life.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Life's irony is that as soon as worldly goods and worldly success are of no concern to you, the way is open… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“The saints have to ‘drink poison’ (worldly suffering) and the world has to ‘drink nectar’ (worldly pleasures). Because people are weak.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
If your career is not predicated on just your physical beauty, you're able to project a sophistication. You can take sophisticated to… — Christine Baranski Copy Share Image
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Worldly life is based on ‘action’ and the spiritual life is based on ‘knowing’. One does the action and the other ‘sees’.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and… — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
“If a prisoner paints his cell in the prison, does it mean that he likes the prison? Why does he do so?… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Christians often get into perplexity about worldly allurements by asking, 'Where is the sin of this, or the danger of that?' There… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if we are faced with obstacles, be they tangible or not, such as jealousy, worldly sentiment, greed, hatred or obsession, etc.,… — Ching Hai Copy Share Image
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of… — William Law Copy Share Image
Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
Man ever talks, and Man ever dreams Of better days that are yet to be, After glittering goal, that distant gleams, Running… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away.… — Stephanie Zimbalist Copy Share Image
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke. — Ximenes Doudan Copy Share Image
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that… — Robert South Copy Share Image
You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
“Worldly Life [sansaar] means continuous-flow. The worldly life is that which is always changing [transforming].” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of… — Steve Scott Copy Share Image
Worldly relationship are just temporary. Make your relationship with God stronger, because when everyone gives up on you He's right by your… — Drusila T Copy Share Image
Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image