Quotes about inspiring
inspiring kindness inspiration
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. Charles Caleb Colton
inspiring fun offering
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again. Alanis Morissette
inspiring lying eye
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion. Alan Watts
inspiring space patterns
Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.
inspiring confused levels
The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.
inspiring conventions deceived
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
inspiring struggle killing
The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
inspiring frustration trying
Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
inspiring mistake cat
The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies.
inspiring people devil
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
inspiring circles looks
There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.
inspiring unique tree
Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.
inspiring philosophy meals
The menu is not the meal.
inspiring thinking our-society
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
inspiring sleep trying
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
inspiring peace stars
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
inspiring fabric structure
What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
inspiring conventions
Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
inspiring water leaving
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
inspiring ocean way
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
inspiring bangs force
You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.
inspiring life-and-love attitude
Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.
inspiring wisdom joy
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
inspiring forever gone
Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever....
inspiring way human-nature
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
inspiring ocean wave
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
inspiring forests quiet
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
inspiring faith eye
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
inspiring confused purpose
Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.
inspiring pain mental-health
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
inspiring faith letting-go
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
inspiring running stars
What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.
inspiring dream men
Man is a genius when he is dreaming. Akira Kurosawa