The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.
After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.
By skepticism. . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.
Because He moves against faults, God is said to be angered, although He is moved by no disturbance of equanimity.
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.
The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love. Passion is the impelling factor, imagination the disturbing factor; and the disturbance of passion by imagination produces love.
You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers.
Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?
Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.
When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead.
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.
But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die. . . . So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.
A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
You have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue. When there is divergence between your policy and the people's beliefs and interests, you will have this vacuum that creates disturbance.
The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
For instance, the blood of hibernating arctic squirrels may supercool to minus 3 degrees, when it would normally congeal. The supercooled blood still flows, since it remains a liquid, but the slightest disturbance will cause it to freeze, killing the squirrel; therefore, you should not disturb hibernating arctic squirrels.