#ali

The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on a distant star. Therefore science is one form of electromagnetism that spends it time studying another form…science is god explaining god through a human nervous system…isn’t spirituality the same thing? ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#science #spirituality #science

To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#native-american #philosophy #spirituality #food

The battle for women's rights has been largely won. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#battle #been #largely #rights #women

What are Christians known for? Outsiders think our moralizing, our condemnations, and our attempts to draw boundaries around everything. Even if these standards are accurate and biblical, they seem to be all we have to offer. And our lives are a poor advertisement for the standards. We have set the gameboard to register lifestyle points; then we are surprised to be trapped by our mistakes. The truth is we have invited the hypocrite image. ↗

— David Kinnaman

#legalism #lifestyle

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#civilization #consequences #environment #foresight #insight

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#first #i #just #novels #onion

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. ↗

— Karl Marx

#employed #labor #machines #may #quell

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#acknowledged #being #clearly #fitness #force

My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#ask #close #daddy #family #healthy

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#everybody #except #first #immortality #mistaken