#con

... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back. ↗

— Ki Longfellow

#divine-consciousness #divinity #life #philosophy #life

Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#life #life

There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#life #loss-of-control #moments #life

Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe. —contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation. —universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#life

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#columbia university #continue #eighteen #graduate #graduate student

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#nonconformity #popularity #soul #life

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in theyear's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#happiness #sadness #life

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was... ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#confidence #strength #witches #life

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#conscience #issue #labour #labour party #party

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business. ↗

— Carlos Alvarez

#business #certainly #close #contact #family