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- To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of…
- The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings ...
- The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to…
- You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font…
- I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and…
- But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that…
- That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any…
- In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the…
- The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human…
- According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be…
- When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it,…
- This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated…
- The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship…
- You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how…
- I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that…
- There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And, 'Who's in charge?'…
- So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my…
- It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than…
- It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to…
- To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
- The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients…
- When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with…
- This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated…
- What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive…
- The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong