"Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind."

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Stephen Levine

#Understanding Quotes #Mind Quotes #Seduction Quotes

“No dream is ever to big. No dreamer is ever to small.”
“We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2001). “Summer Tree, The: Book One of the Fionavar Tapestry”, p.126, Penguin
“One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.”
“Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation, and flashes of inspiration prove to be excellent sources of novel approaches, new ways of looking at things, new discoveries, and new information. We do not disparage those ideas derived from religious experience, altered states of consciousness, or the emotions; we merely declare that testing these ideas against reality is the only way to determine their validity as knowledge.”
“What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something I've been working on all of my life. I couldn't have written this novel at twenty or thirty, for technical reasons - I didn't have the technique then - but above all because I didn't have the life experiences I have now at sixty-seven.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.”

Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.205, Litres
“Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.”

Source : Penelope Leach (2013). “Your Baby and Child”, p.10, Knopf
“Athletes are always talking about money at a time when everyone else is struggling so badly to make it. We all make way more than our fair share. And I just think it reflects poorly on myself and my teammates. I really do just want to win, and that has and will continue to be the reason that motivates me and is the biggest factor in my decision-making process.”

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