#revelation

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#action #apparently #been #breaks #cards

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. ↗

— William James

#force #idea #individual #must #revelation

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. ↗

— Voltaire

#anything #call #cannot #existence #feeling

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#god #nature #religion #life

The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace. ↗

— John Piper

#wisdom #life

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#blossom #enables #into #life #marvel

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself. ↗

— Frank Langella

#come #larger #pitting #revelations #something

The eye sees "Beautiful"; the heart sees "Beauty"... - "Beautiful" is tangible and shallow; it fades with time, age and use. True BEAUTY is ageless. It can never be described; it dwells within. ↗

— LaTonja 3ts-Hamp

#age

It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication; after this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#age

You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. But if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother? ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#changing #different #inattention #life #loss-of-focus