Deprivation Quote by Robertson Davies

“the unity of perfect meditative stability and knowledge is to rest right within profound knowledge's seeing that is without seeing anything and to do…

— Karl Brunnholzl

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

— Jenny Holzer

“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.”

— Wendell Berry

“Only for those prepared to leave their familiar life behind, will life emerge in a new gown of continually expanding beauty and perfection. But…

— Hilma af Klint

“Thus, Pawo Rinpoche says, both Nagarjuna's and Asanga's traditions agree that the unity of perfect meditative stability and knowledge is to rest right within…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“And having returned from the woods, we remember with regret its restfulness. For all creatures there are in place, hence at rest. In their…

— Wendell Berry

Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the…

— Gautama Buddha

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is…

— Seneca the Younger

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

— Laozi

“The source of stillness is in emptiness. All things and the changes they go through are but temporary conditions, which finally return to nothingness,…

— Chen Kaiguo

If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system…

— Frederick Law Olmsted

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On…

— Victor Hugo