#nature

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

#mind #nature

She looked up at him. "Carry me. I like it when you carry me." Her body trembled beneath him. "Ask me." "Please." The words came out without hesitation or thought. "Would you carry me?" "Anything you ask for, angel." ↗

— Joey W. Hill

#tyler #nature

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! ↗

— William Golding

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Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits." -- Diary of a Country Priest ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#spirituality #nature

Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work. ↗

— Alan Watt

#nature

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#nature #nature

For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the most ordinary conversation is often the most poetic, and the most poetic is precisely that which cannot be written down. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#nature

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have no Emerson or Whitman among us. An institutionalized counterculture condemns individuality as archaic and depreciates intellectual values, even in the universities. (The Anatomy of Influence) ↗

— Harold Bloom

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Sin prevenciones me doy vuelta y siguen aquellos dos a la izquierda del roble eternos y escondidos en la lluvia diciéndose quién sabe qué silencios. No sé si alguna vez les ha pasado a ustedes pero cuando la lluvia cae sobre el Botánico aquí se quedan sólo los fantasmas. Ustedes pueden irse. Yo me quedo. ↗

— Mario Benedetti

#nature #poem #love

The foreign states may become actively involved for positive purposes only if and when the internal resistance movement has already begun shaking the dictatorship, having thereby focused international attention on the brutal nature of the regime. ↗

— Gene Sharp

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