Beings Quote by Marilynne Robinson Download Open image “For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.” — Marilynne Robinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beings Beings Mind Center Everything Human Human beings Humans Mind Mind Center Our Psychology Purpose Purposes Human
The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I also use that centering process I mentioned as a way to focus my mind and connect it to my physical body. I feel… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. — James Hollis Copy Share Image
The mind is the thing that we must stretch in order to broaden our reality and capabilities. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes there might be an advantage in making people aware how worn and stale these old transgressions are. It might take some… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings. — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with… — Nicholas Lore Copy Share Image
I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever. — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
We're human beings trying to love each other. There are constant revelations and room for growth. — Lamman Rucker Copy Share Image
