Contamination Quote by David Brin Download Open image “Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.” — David Brin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contamination Enlightenment
There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is getting off the wheel. Enlightenment is to become pure awareness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is nothing more than moments of self-awareness. Don’t let cultural spiritual hierarchy intimidate you into the mindset of unworthiness. You are divine already,… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is at the source of everything. From it, flows our Intuition and our creative energy. It is the delta of the human spirit… — Kim Chestney Copy Share Image
I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic and simplified… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Men can be brilliant and strong, they whispered to one another. But men can be mad, as well. And the mad ones can ruin… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex. — David Brin Copy Share Image
“We aren’t a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries . . . her ambition and her heart.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Historically, central planners have generally done a poor job of managing economic resources - this we've known since the time of the Pharaohs. — David Brin Copy Share Image
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear. — David Brin Copy Share Image
It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Tragedies such as Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach' and Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' are so powerful because there's an underlying assumption that this did… — David Brin Copy Share Image
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature",… — David Brin Copy Share Image
In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine,… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“a. The chocolate in six (6) 100 gram subsamples contains an average of 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams. or b. Any… — FDA food regulations Copy Share Image
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past. — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting,… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
When you can light your water on fire due to methane contamination in your ground water, what else can you do but laugh? — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
