Senses Quotes

1128 Senses quotes by 752 unique authors

Our divine perfection - not registered by the physical eye but only by the heart’s knowing - is who we truly are. Our mortal imperfections… — Marianne Williamson
Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound. — Milan Kundera
When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the… — Oswald Chambers
It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses. — John Updike
From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt… — Luke Davies
We become in part what our senses take in. — Eknath Easwaran
The five senses are the ministers of the soul. — Leonardo da Vinci
To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person… — Eknath Easwaran
Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses;… — Meister Eckhart
The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk… — Henry David Thoreau
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all… — John Henry Newman
A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . . — Antonin Artaud
Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat. — Democritus
Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate… — Maria Montessori
Driving a hot car is a lot like sex to me, or a lot like I keep thinking sex should be: A total body experience,… — Karen Marie Moning
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive. — Jasper Johns
If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to… — Mooji
Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world. — Dan Millman
The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired… — C.S. Lewis
Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and… — Gregory Palamas
The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even… — Gregory Palamas
When a man receives something Divine, in his heart he rejoices; but when he receives something diabolic, he is disturbed. The Christian heart, when it… — Seraphim of Sarov
... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance of the intellect.… — Gregory Palamas
In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to… — Hilary of Poitiers

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