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"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation,… — Swami Vivekananda
Meditation is a glorious link to connect and harmonize the two ends of life - material and spiritual. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter… — Thomas J. Stanley
The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the… — E. O. Wilson
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend… — Paul Cezanne
What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively,… — H. L. Mencken
Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and… — Robert Wright
The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities.… — Orison Swett Marden
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a… — Marcus Aurelius
The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard… — Fred Hoyle
The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or technical solutions. Rather,… — Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality 'of closed eyes,' but one of 'alertness,' one which entails an absolute duty to take notice of… — Pope Benedict XVI
Being in deep devotion comes as a surprise the first time, because it is so difficult for people to feel even love, and devotion is… — Rajneesh
Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult… — Dalai Lama
When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting. — Max Beckmann
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long… — John Ruskin
Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with… — Edgar Cayce
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man… — Alphonse de Lamartine
The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals,… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our… — John Eccles

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