Acquire Quote by Mircea Eliade

It is in [the] process of making something... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm…

— Joseph C Zinker

A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the…

— Joshua Reynolds

“Reality exists as appearances, and appearances are reality known to human beings. You cannot separate appearances from reality, and hold out the latter as…

— Kaiten Nukariya

This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of…

— Marcel Proust

“It’s a remarkable fact that the people who have gone the very deepest into the mind—the sages and saints of every religious tradition—all say…

— Rick Hanson

Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call it 'God,'…

— Tarthang Tulku

Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism…

— Robert Lanza

Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and…

— Georg Simmel

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

— Robert Henri

“From birth, nature has designed us to approach the world as a whole, and when we slice experience up into bits and pieces, wholeness…

— Rudolph E. Tanzi

“The object of their desire, the “essential” core of life, is something called authenticity, and finding the authentic has become the foremost spiritual quest…

— Andrew Potter