#sence

[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish species. Past human greatness has proven that when challenged, love can overpower impulsive instinct, and in essence, the vilest aspects of our nature. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#essence #flaw #human #human-condition #human-nature

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity. ↗

— Brother Lawrence

#practice-presence-of-god #business

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#essence #future #gist #horizon #meaning

Your true home is in the here and the now. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#presence #zen

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone ↗

— James Dashner

#alone #breakup #broken #day #felt

Be in your own skin, as an act of self-loving. ↗

— H. Raven Rose

#presence #self-loving #love

I had a sense of your presence constantly. ↗

— Michael Kelahan

#presence #love

There’s a reason they call God a presence- because God is right here, right now. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#presence-of-god #love

The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#emmanuel #energy #faraway-love #lucy-snow #separation

I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence. ↗

— Eric Bana

#ghost #i #much #presence #very