Ability Quote by Earl Wilson

“Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the…

— T.F. Hodge

Absence, the highest form of presence.

— James Joyce

Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions.…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

— Mahavira

“If the mere nonexistence of attention and mental engagement is taken to be "nonattention" and "mental nonengagement," it is to be analyzed in what…

— Karl Brunnholzl

A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a…

— Karl G. Maeser

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name…

— Emile Durkheim

“When you discover yourself lying on the ground, limp and unresisting, head in the dirt, and helpless, the earth seems to shift forward as…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“It is most comfortable to be invisible, to observe life from a distance, at one with our own intoxicating superior thoughts. But comfort and…

— Anne Lamott

A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body.…

— Alexander Lowen

“To think blankness rouses certain terror and in the feeling the sudden sense of self responding down to the smallest unaided particle of its…

— Edwin Honig

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

— Neal A. Maxwell