O you who love clear edges more than anything . . . watch the edges that blur. —Adrienne Rich More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Joan of Arc: I hear voices telling me what to do. They come from God. Robert: They come from your imagination. Joan: Of course. That is how the messages of God come to us. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: God imagination communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't think, in our kind of society, we'll be able to develop a full-blown mystical religion or concept of God because we seek instant gratification, fast food, endless talk and noise. The silence in mysticism is alien. People want to do a few courses in mysticism, rather like the way you do French before going on holiday, and emerge a mystic. Mysticism isn't like that. —Karen Armstrong More about this quote Tags: God religion silence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Tags: mystery adventure daring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a fifth dimension beyond those known to man. It is a dimension vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between the pit of his fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area called the Twilight Zone. —Rod Serling More about this quote Tags: imagination knowledge infinity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. —Harry Emerson Fosdick More about this quote Tags: mind world mystery comprehension Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. —Anatole France More about this quote Tags: God chance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The thing that astonished him was that cats should have two holes cut in their coat exactly at the place where their eyes are. —G. C. Lichtenberg More about this quote Tags: wonder eyes cats astonishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A mystic is a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the nonexistent. —Elbert Hubbard More about this quote Tags: obviousness mysticism nonexistence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time. —Jane Wagner More about this quote Tags: understanding life awe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing. —Stewart Edward White More about this quote Tags: life progress change growth fruit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This work is about transformation — from the person we are to the person we really are. In the end, we can't be anyone else. —Marion Rosen More about this quote Tags: identity work transformation Someone else Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. —Henri Frederic Amiel More about this quote Tags: life knowledge suffering desire art of living Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: knowledge safety identity change world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity. —Carlos Castaneda More about this quote Tags: thought infinity intent defeat wish indulgence invulnerability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email