#peri

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#life-experience #self-determination #experience

It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#confusion #humanity #experience

No human society has ever been able to maintain both order and freedom, both cohesiveness and liberty apart from the moral precepts of the Christian religion… Should our republic ever forget this fundamental precept of governance this great experiment will then be surely doomed. ↗

— John Jay

#christianity #government #experience

In that nanosecond of enlightenment I knew that the human spirit survives the death of the physical body and I understood that my wandering soul needed to get back into its earthly habitat. ↗

— Janet Bettag

#brain-aneurysm #enlightenment #human-spirit #inspirational #near-death-experience

Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#attention #been #devoted #effort #experimental

Sam, you need experts on this, and I love you, but—” “I’m so new I have that new-car smell about me? ↗

— Lish McBride

#love

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#experience #life #marathon #mile #run

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#cars #conscious #dumping #food #homes

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#breath #each #experience #how #just

Your mentality sets the stage for your prosperity. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#mentality #motivational-quotes #prosperity #success #successity