Our Ordinary Quotes
28 quotes by 25 authors
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Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness.…
— Pema Chodron
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We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research,…
— Danah Zohar
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From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the…
— Dalai Lama
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. . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe. Our ordinary mind…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think…
— George Lakoff
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We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.
— Karen Armstrong
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When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way…
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is…
— Nan Fairbrother
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Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.
— Oswald Chambers
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If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our…
— Michel de Montaigne
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It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey…
— Hans Børli
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Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk,…
— Sharon Salzberg
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As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in…
— Edward Witten
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The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough…
— Kathleen Norris
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I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more…
— Amy Tan
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Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the…
— Karen Armstrong
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The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and…
— Stephen King
Who Wrote These Our Ordinary Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 28 Our Ordinary Quotes as follows: