Our Ordinary Quotes

28 quotes by 25 authors

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
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
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
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
. . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe. Our ordinary mind… — Sogyal Rinpoche
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
We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind. — Karen Armstrong
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
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
Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God. — Oswald Chambers
If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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
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 BÃ¸rli
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: