#mind

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assertions #beautiful #correction #divinity #foolish

There is nothing more powerful and nothing more dangerously beautiful than a free mind. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom-of-thought #peace #beauty

Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#mind #beauty

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fragile #peace-of-mind #pleasure #treasures #beauty

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind? ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#easily #forgotten #injuries #keep #kindnesses

Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results. ↗

— Robin S. Sharma

#life

What beauty would we see around us, if for just one second we could acknowledge the beauty that lies within ourselves? ↗

— Monica Dumont

#beauty-in-everything #beauty-in-mind-and-body #beauty-quote #peace #beauty

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#provocative #business

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#meditation #mind #understanding #business

A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me? ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#close-mindedness #criticism #drugs #ignorance #judgmental