In The World Quotes
Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.
Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.
The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.
Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world.
I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade.
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.
I would love to play for Real Madrid. And I want to win a World Cup for the U.S. so bad. When the women won it, everybody went crazy. I would love to be part of something like that.
That's the dream. Being on the U.S. National team and winning the World Cup. I'll take the win anyway I can get it.
We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.
The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.
Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.
It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.
The idea of romanticising the world goes back to the idea of creating a harmonious whole where the individual will feel at one with himself, others and nature.
The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.
When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation".
This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.
There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.
Life is light and consciousness. Beyond this world and other worlds, beyond time and space and dimension, beyond what we call duality, is God
God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We can say that your perception of this world is God.
That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. This is an arena of power.
Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.
There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.
The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.
On the pathway of knowledge we view life as in a dream. We feel that all of this world is a dream.
The dream appears to be real. It does really seem we are here in this world; but this is not so.
As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.
We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it.
You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!
If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real selfless giving we push all of that aside and we smile, love and give to others.
We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.
If we think of Albert Schweitzer, Ghandi, Lincoln, we feel that the people who were the most outstanding in the this world are those who have given the most of themselves.
The most giving souls are those who give when they don't have to give, who could just walk away from this world and its suffering and merge with eternal existence and bliss forever.
Each day try and go through the day with an attitude of being a servant to the world. You'll benefit the most - and the way will be joyous.
The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.
So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.
Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.
Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.