Facts Quote by Matthew Simpson

“The outward and visible way in which we move through our daily round—the time, creative energy, emotion, attitude, and attention with which we endow…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

— Rudolf Steiner

The "outside" constitutes the horizon of meaning and the vital energy of our practice and thought.

— Roberto Esposito

When we decide to live each instant fully, with all our might, to live true to ourselves and make the present moment shine, we…

— Senora Roy

One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the…

— Thomas Merton

To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the aloofness which…

— John Lancaster Spalding

“A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

— Pliny the Elder

“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we…

— Oliver Sacks

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because…

— Nicolas Malebranche

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes…

— Martin Heidegger

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

— David Belle