Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker. ” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.
Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
When we don't ask, we don't let others give. When we fear rejection, we don't let generosity arise.
Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.
Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.
Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings. . . Amble out for love
I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.
The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.
Your worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings - how you feel, what you think, what you do. . . You are responsible.
When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!
I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.