Able Quote by Paul Brunton

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals…

— Paul Brunton

Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“My husband says this longing for isolation is not a good quality, that if I wanted to be a hermit I should have moved…

— Anna White

“A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her little foot…

— Mette Ivie Harrison

As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely…

— Robert Dallek

The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains

— Ron Silver

For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other…

— Anonymous

“The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Do you want to increase your hunger for the Lord? Try weaning yourself from the world's diet- be prepared for some withdrawal symptoms when…

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world — that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature — but perhaps…

— Franz Kafka

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from…

— Milton Babbitt