Kirk J. Schneider famous quotes

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Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.
-- Kirk J. Schneider

#Reflection #Discovery #Self
Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.
-- Kirk J. Schneider

#Couple #Mean #Challenges
Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science, for example or in absolutist religious positions; or by locking ourselves into systems, whether corporate, familial, or consumerist; or by stupefying ourselves with drugs.
-- Kirk J. Schneider

#Religious #People #Drug
Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure.
-- Kirk J. Schneider

#Glimpse #Emotion #Horror

When you do what you want, not what you wish...' said the first raven. 'When you no longer seek your reflection in others' eyes...' said the second. 'When you see yourselves face to face...' said the third. 'Then,' the ravens intoned in unison, 'you will have found what you truly seek.
A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.
Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

Kirk J. Schneider famous quotes

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