Subtler Quotes
44 Subtler quotes by 39 unique authors
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If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow…
— Laozi
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Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly…
— John Maynard Keynes
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In your body, there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It is not very…
— Rajneesh
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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness…
— Thomas Carlyle
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There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand…
— Antonin Artaud
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Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much…
— Peter Watts
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These past couple of years have been about learning to not sabotage myself in a subtler way - for instance, even just by putting moisturiser…
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind…
— Mercedes Lackey
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Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and…
— Ravi Ravindra
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions…
— Alfred Jarry
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Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found…
— William Sharp
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First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are…
— Boris Beizer
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And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even…
— Ken Wilber
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The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
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Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
— Deepak Chopra
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Compassion is subtler than Vitamin C, but both are real needs.
— Deepak Chopra
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The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god,…
— Gore Vidal
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If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.
— Arthur Koestler
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Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping,…
— Ken Wilber
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I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the…
— Albert Einstein
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There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule…
— Marianne Moore
Who Wrote These Subtler Quotes
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