Buried Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Bantu Philosophy: People cling to life and are not yet at the stage where they wil fight for the quality of that life. They…

— Michela Wrong

The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives…

— Sam Keen

In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual…

— Dalai Lama

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what…

— Rowan Williams

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.

— Alberto Giacometti

Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes all murmuring,…

— Joseph Addison

Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled…

— William Buckland

Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.

— Frederick Lenz

“I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For…

— Anonymous

Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a…

— Ernest Gellner

When people have a real sense of legacy, a sense of mattering, a sense of contribution, it seems to tap into the deepest part…

— Stephen Covey

The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity…

— William Faulkner