- “[T]he price you’ve paid is not the price of becoming human. It’s not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It’s the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.” ― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
- “All I’m trying to say is that if you’re not willing to observe this, if you’re just going to condemn it, you’re never going to see it. It’s there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we’re dealing with here,” he said. “Think how old it is, Jim. Think how huge it is. Understanding it doesn’t make any difference.” ― Jim Paul, Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon
- “The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. ” ― Richard Rorty
- “Patience comes to those who think.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
- “I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.” ― Baruch Spinoza, Political Treatise
- “Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare’s? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel’s great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to “enlarge” your mind? Subtilize it” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale
- “Portentous, uncertain, intoxicating. A leap of faith. It asked me if I wanted it, and of course, I said yes.” ― John Casey
- “The ones who let go are the ones who stay sane.” ― Maxime Lagacé
- “Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “Philosophers console themselves with explanations.” ― Marty Rubin
- “Then we’re just sitting there, staring at each other. Which has been happening a lot lately. It’s likewhatever wall there was between us, however she was holding herself back from me . . . all of thatpretense is gone.“And when you find a soul mate,” Sara says, “it’s undeniable. You have to be together.”“That’s my philosophy.” I look back at her. “You have to go with the flow.”“Exactly. I think the universe guides you to make the right choices.”“Do you believe in fate?”“I guess, but . . . it’s more about creating the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. Youknow?” ― Susane Colasanti
- “For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
- “It’s a thought,” I said with a grin.”That’s exactly what it is, Dan – a thought – no more real than the shadow of a shadow. Consciousness is not In the body; the body is In Consciousness. And you Are that Consciousness – no the phantom mind that troubles you so. You are the body, but you are everything else, too. That is what your visions revealed to you. Only the mind resists change. When you relax mindless into the body, you are happy and content and free, sensing no separation. Immortality is Already yours, but not in the same way you imagined or hope for. You have been immortal since before you were born and will be long after the body dissolves. The body is in Consciousness; never born; never dies; only changes. The mind – your ego, personal beliefs, history, and identity – is all that ends at death. And who needs it?” Socrates leaned back into his chair.”I’m not sure all of that sank in.””Of course not.” He laughed. “Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you’ll be free at last.” ― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
- “But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.” ― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
- “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” ― Thomas Aquinas
- “We deserve food, clean water, clear air, and above all, the ability to care for ourselves and our energies.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
- “The spiritual experience of oneness conduces to the same insight as reasoning through science. Both convey the insight of fundamental interconnection between ourselves, other people, other forms of life, the biosphere and, ultimately, the universe. Science and spirituality, far from being mutually exclusive and conflicting elements, are complementary partners in the search for the path that can enable humanity to recover its oneness with the world. Science demonstrates the urgent and objective need for it; and spirituality testifies to its inherent value and supreme desirability.” ― Alexis Karpouzos, The self-criticism of science: The contemporary philosophy of science & the problem of the scientific consciousness.
- “People don’t have time to be evil. There is pettiness all around but not much evil.” ― Shunya
- “Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.” ― Ja A. Jahannes, WordSong Poets
- “To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor non-living. It is a state of pure awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time. Once the illusion that the body-mind is oneself is abandoned, death loses its terror; it becomes a part of living.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- “…It is perfectly obvious that I, as the conscious witness of my experience, am not the deep cause of it.” ― Sam Harris, Free Will
- “We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of “the created.” We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator’s image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.” ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
- “First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosophermust “once in his life” withdraw into himself and attempt,within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciencesthat, up to then, he has been accepting. Philosophy wisdom(sagesse) is the philosophizer’s quite personal affair. It mustarise as His wisdom, as his self-acquired knowledge tendingtoward universality, a knowledge for which he can answer fromthe beginning, and at each step, by virtue of his own absoluteinsights.” ― Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology
- “Meditation is not a religion but a scientific way to enhance the concentration power of the mind.” ― Debasish Mridha
- There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. G.K. Chesterton
- “We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose – even for transforming murderers into judges.” ― Albert Camus, The Rebel
- “Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air. My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is!” ― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs
- “It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.” ― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
- “Corona Virus has once again reminded us that the world at the level of viruses and bacteria may operate on survival instincts alone where survival of the fittest is the only moral code. Human body structure might have evolved to be in the present form, but the Ultimate Creator has given us the human soul and spirit which has consciousness like animals, but also has conscience. To focus attention on consciousness alone is to live with survival instincts and ignore higher morals. To act on goodness suggested by conscience requires looking beyond animal instincts and embrace goodness as a habit and wilful choice. Accountability in life hereafter urges that and promises cause and effect in moral matters.” ― Salman Ahmed Shaikh, Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
- “It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is”.” ― J.L. Austin, Ordinary Language