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«I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.»
Author: J. G. Ballard
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
boring, conforming, Everything or Nothing, exciting, suburb, sum, sum up, vast
«Move into the vast, into the infinite, and by and by, learn to trust it. Leave yourself in the hands of life. »
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
by and by, left handed, move into, vast
« Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say, ?I am angry.? Say, ?Anger is there and I am watching it.? And see the difference! The difference is vast. Suddenly you are out of the grip of anger. If you can say, ?I am just a watcher, I am not anger,? you are out of the grip.»
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
anger, angry, come to grips, difference, grip, gripped, gripping, grips, Just a, just in time, key, keyed, next, suddenly, vast, Vaster, vastest, watch, watcher, watchers, watching
«On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale»
«It is one of our perennial problems, whether there is actually a God. From the Hindu point of view each soul is divine. All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.»
Author: George Harrison
| About:
God,
Religion
| Keywords:
Big Lie, Big Picture, big tree, branches, Branches of, cinematic, combinations, cosmic, countless, delusion, figures, Hindu, Hindus, images, motion, motion picture, Motion pictures, perennial, planetary, point of view, profoundly, religions, shade, Spheres, The Big Picture, The Hindu, The Motion Picture, tree branch, variety, vast
«I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
bright, child, content, every now and then, finding, now and then, pebble, pebbled, seem, shores, vast, Vaster, vastest, wandering, wanderings
«Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!»
«Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where e»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Mankind,
Perfection,
Possessions,
Power,
Progress,
World
| Keywords:
driven, e'en, external, increasingly, insatiable, materialistic, nowadays, possessions, reaching, striving, vast, zenith
«I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.»
«Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Mankind,
Men
| Keywords:
abroad, circular, compass, compasses, compassing, courses, heights, huge, Long Course, motions, mountains, mountain pass, ocean, pass by, rivers, River Went, The Long, The Sea, vast, waves, wondering
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