#nature

Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your ‘practice’ should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#enlightenment #god #higher-self #holy-spirit #inspirational

Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature’s simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard. ↗

— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#beautiful #life-inspirational #simple-joys #treasures #nature

A força da nossa vontade tem que ver com a vontade da nossa força. Porque a verdade é o que é pela sua justeza, mais o músculo anterior de quem a enuncia. Por isso é tão incompreensível a tolerância na juventude como a intolerância na velhice. Assim, a intolerância é um sinal de juventude de se ser um homem firme como na velhice é um sinal de se ser taralhouco. Assim a democracia não é o triunfo da juventude, a não ser como um terreno é o triunfo do que lá se cultiva. Porque a democracia não é uma “ideologia”, mas o caldo em que todas elas se podem desenvolver. Assim o que melhor a defende é que as ideologias perderam a semente do serem. Mas o que desse modo melhor a define a democracia na sua estabilidade e defesa contra o que a ameace, não é o convívio das várias ideologias, mas a indiferença em face de todas elas. Como na entropia, o regime que nos espera no limite do esperar, está para lá da democracia porque é a ausência de qualquer um. O homem não vai suicidar-se porque a vida sem razão não é razão para que o suicídio valha a pena. Honestamente, o homem vai continuar a morrer de “morte natural”. Mas talvez por inanição. Ou simplesmente de tédio, enquanto não achar um motivo que não o seja. E o tédio não se trata na psiquiatria, mas num sono em que se apodreça de bolor. ↗

— Vergílio Ferreira

#velhice #nature

Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#rules #structure #nature

I knew the woodsy fragrance that accompanied Reed was his natural scent. It was one of the many things that made him hard to resist. ↗

— Cherie Colyer

#ya #nature

we raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. i'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right. ↗

— Temple Grandin

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There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [...]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#gender #masculinity #sexuality #nature

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#cosmology #geometry #math #nature #science

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. ↗

— Theodore Roszak

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These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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