#physical

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. ↗

— Karl Pearson

#apparently #carried #dealing #description #endless

An intelligence completely dissociated from the physical, or at least an impression of it, was a strange, curiously limited and almost perverse thing, and the precise form that your physicality took had a profound, in some ways defining influence on your personality. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#intelligence #personality #physical #spiritual #intelligence

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#emotion #grief #life #pain #physical

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time. ↗

— Lauren Ambrose

#because #doing #especially #experience #fun

In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday. ↗

— Edward Albert

#back #basics #crisis #eating #enough

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#emotionally #find #generally #i #men

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#battle #brave #brave men #contests #daily

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#metaphysical #spiritual #nature

All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing ↗

— Mary Oliver

#mornings #physical-landscapes #uncertainty

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130) ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#metaphysical-beliefs #mindfulness #piety #theism #transcendence