#traditions

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#call #consciousness #definition #life #same

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#ancient #apparent #aspect #athletics #cities

The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions. ↗

— James Welch

#college #community #community college #doing #each

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#developed #moral #our #product #reason

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts. ↗

— Brad Henry

#children #creative #faith #heroes #innovation

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#go #i #keep #let go #prefer

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#annals #behind #commonwealth #different #empire

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. ↗

— Maya Lin

#both #college #made #me #parents

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important. ↗

— Kate Mara

#i #important #like #national #national anthem

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#better #christianity #faiths #fight #fundamentalism