#z

Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle? ↗

— Brad Warner

#consciousness #drugs #zen #movies

Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make a soul tremble in a den like this, where pain must hold its tongue, poverty remain cheerful, and despair retain its self respect. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#inspirational

They are my men and this ship my responsibility. I vowed no woman would ever alter my path. Yet I kept them from ending you, and it makes me sick to the gut, for I would still rather die myself than see one hair on your head damaged by another man. ↗

— Saskia Walker

#erotic #fiction #love #nice #perfect

It’s almost as if all the sleazy men in this country attended the same seminar, where they learned that all American women go to Italy to sleep with them. The teacher at the seminar told them, “You don’t need to learn English to seduce an American woman, you only need to learn one word: ‘bella.’ If you say it, their belts will snap and pants fall from their hips.If I ever find that seminar teacher, I’m going to kick him in the shin. - Raven Smith ↗

— Rita Stradling

#men #sleazy #tourist #men

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius. ↗

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

#mathematicians #mathematics #nullity #numbers #zero

I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you're born with it. My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two. ↗

— Adam Levine

#inspirational #love #inspirational

Sobre su verdadera faz se ha puesto para el vulgo una careta de conveniencias corrientes. ¿Qué le importa a la multitud lo que nosotros somos y lo que en lo más íntimo de nuestro ser alimentamos? ↗

— Azorín

#cosas #inspirational #máscaras #realidad #tiempos

I just try to think of celebrations that suprise people, that people have fun with, and that people enjoy.. ↗

— Jorge Lorenzo

#motogp #sports-inspirational #inspirational

While there are many that journey who seek, not all that travel will find, for they are bound by what they have been taught and not of what they know.” - The Tapestry of Spirit ↗

— Erik Paul Rocklin

#self-awareness #self-realization #inspirational

Think of the jazz improv artist responding to the musical banter among her fellow players onstage. Aside from whatever training they've done in advance, as soon as the curtain opens, they move into unknown territory together, creating something new each time by remaining in a state of undivided presence. ↗

— Donna Quesada

#wisdom #zen #inspirational