World Quotes - Page 727

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.

... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.

We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

During the late afternoon and early evening there is a specific dimension that interconnects with our physical world. This particular dimension can be visualized as series of horizontally shaped geometric planes that extent out into infinity.

There are many universes, countless universes, and many of them are invisible. We call these the astral planes, but they are as real as this world is and they're filled with beings that have life spans.

Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.

Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.

The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

The light of the supra-conscious, of salvakalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, is not connected to this world at all. It passes through this world but it is not part of this world, in a way of speaking.

At the time of death we walk through a doorway and our spirit, which is very thin, slides through into another world.

Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.

If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.