Certain Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

“Human nature presents human minds with a puzzle which they have not yet solved and may never succeed in solving, for all that we…

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those…

— GEORGE ELIOT

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

— Bill Porter

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

— Amiri Baraka

Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent Mother in…

— Marion Woodman

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

— Josef Pieper

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

— Aime Martin

Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment,…

— Albert Einstein

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Sensory deprivation has a devastating psychological impact and can lead to the complete dissolution of the personality accompanied by hallucinations, delusional thinking and general…

— Brian Moss