I Quotes
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“Instinctively, I flap my arms beside me,
streaking fire across the sky
with my red flamed, fluttering wings.
High I am, staring down at
the creased world below me.
A world that I have sworn to protect.”
Source: All the Hope We Carry
“Instinctively I had followed Mama’s caution against strangers, but she had also taught me to treat everyone the same no matter what or how different they were or what race they were. “These are only visible images,” Mama said, “like the colors and shapes of a painting. You need to look deeper to discover what the painting is about or how it affects you. It’s the same with people.””
Source: The Ascension of Mary
“Instinctively I started to panic when Dr. Martinez strapped my arm down, and
then the panic just melted away, la la la.
Someone took my other hand. Fang. I felt his calluses, his bones, his
strength.
“I’m so glad you’re here,” I slurred, smiling dopily up at him. I took in
his startled, worried expression but dismissed it. “I know everything’s fine
if you’re here.”
I thought I saw his cheeks flush, but I wasn’t too sure of anything anymore.”
“Instincts are effective tools of survival, but when it comes to finding true answers to real questions, your rational thinking is the person to do the job. That is why seeking truth requires keeping your innate instincts and biases in check.”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“Instincts are governed by senses
Conscoiusness transcends... minus the lenses
Inner senses maximised, lenses neutralized...
Get #Mickeymized!”
“Instincts are older, but thoughts are recent, that's why instincts are more powerful than thoughts - that's why it takes great will power to express a thought through action, while instincts come so easily. However, if we continue practicing our thoughts long enough, eventually the instincts that hold power over us will turn powerless. And this my friend, ought to be the next step of our evolution, and that's why it's no longer merely a matter of natural selection, it's what I hereby dub "sapient selection", that is the process of determining the path of our evolution ourselves.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Instincts are very different from intuition. Instincts guide our behavior without the involvement of conscious thought. As such, they are valuable and necessary for our survival—but they will keep us just there: surviving, not thriving. While instincts are innate, unconscious, and biologically driven behaviors, intuition can be consciously cultivated. Intuition is the intelligence of the heart. By listening to it, we develop sensitivity to the magic of life, gain wisdom, and we begin to find joy and beauty in the present moment. This gives us the courage to live fully—beyond the mere drive to survive.”
“Instincts of today evolved from
yesterday’s jungle life,
Tomorrow's instincts will rise
from today’s human life.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.”
“Instincts were everything.
Not emotions, mind you, he'd say. But instincts. If a man smiles and it makes you want to run, then by all means... run as fast and as far as your legs will take you.”
Source: Miss Sally's Unsuitable Soldier
“Instintivamente acaricia o velo de cedro penumbroso, bosque arruivado a ensombrar-lhe o cimo das coxas; curva-se de novo e, admirada, vai tão longe quanto pode na abordagem tímida dos lábios de anil da molhada boca do seu ventre. A separá-los: penetrando, afagando-os, a sentir os dedos numa humidade lenta, um orvalho dolente, uma resina turva.
Ali, onde há sucos e gosto sem ferida.
Ali, onde há fenda, há céu, há mar.
Mato de se perder na busca da vertigem no assombro da ousadia do acto; gosto e travo a rosa insatisfeita, odor de chuva, de cardo, de almíscar. Perfume de nardo a desatar-lhe os nervos, enquanto persegue o improvável mapa do delírio: mais acima a mina, e logo abaixo o poço.
Modorra de papoila a florescer no alto, a entumescer ao tacto.
Prazer diverso e gozo que a muda, e ela transgride, voa, cresce. E tanto no clítoris como na vulva, o bordado a cheio vai-se enredando, matizando, demorando nas caprochosas cores, nos desenhos, nas misteriosas linhas de agulha onde se enleia. Veia que o fogo entorna, toma e incendeia. Na procura do êxtase.
E Leonor ondeia.
Rola enovelada em cima do leito onde se distende, roda e cede a galgar o parapeito de si própria, deixando a razão apagada à cabeceira.
Rodopia.
Resvala.
Mãos descendo e subindo, indo e vindo, na descoberta dos desvãos, do topo, dos secretos recantos de segredo, em todos os lugares e tempos que o orgasmo guarda.
Entorna.
Derrama.
Grita e explode.
Gemendo sob o pulso que lhe amordaça a fala pelo próprio avesso. Assim leve, assim solta, assim livre. Leonor corre, voa, nada, desvenda.
E finalmente foge.
Consigo mesma.”
Source: As Luzes de Leonor
“Instintivamente tengo simpatía por todos los experimentos Y por todos los que los hacen. ¿Por qué? Porque tienen el empeño de colocarse en un punto inicial como si antes no hubiera ocurrido nada. Porque el experimento es consecuencia de un talante especial: uno piensa que todo lo que hace es importante. Porque, de un modo repentino, importa el individuo humano, cualquiera que desee poner en práctica una idea y la tome sobre sus espaldas. Porque los experimentos requieren tesón y además dos cualidades que, en su combinación, son las más importantes: resistencia y paciencia.
Instintivamente siento desconfianza frente a todos los experimentadores. ¿Por qué? Porque van en busca del éxito y quieren imponerse. A menudo se ve que la carga que han tirado les era completamente desconocida; quieren llegar a la cumbre con menos equipaje, es decir con menos esfuerzo. Aceptan a cualquier aliado; se muestran comprensivos ante la estructura del poder del mundo - tal como la encuentran - y, de un modo indiscriminado, para propagar su experimento, utilizan todo aquello que no llega al ámbito más reducido de éste. Independientemente de qué sea aquello de lo que han prescindido para alcanzar lo nuevo, he aquí que, de repente, se encuentran otra vez con lo que han dejado, como si fuera su arma. A menudo viven en grupúsculos, forman capillitas, piensan, calculan, administran. El contraste entre sus verdaderos propósitos y su modo de comportarse entre los demás clama venganza al cielo. Insisten en este contraste; tienen que hacerlo porque cualquier compromiso que intentara equilibrar los dos aspectos de su existencia sería el fin de su experimento como tal.
Pero ¿qué van a hacer? ¿Qué se puede esperar de este mundo? Su experimento quiere vivir, ¿van ellos a morir de hambre? De entre ellos, los que han nacido para mártires son los menos. La resistencia la practican en un terreno acotado y muy reducido, y es muy posible que el resto de su persona permanezca completamente incólume. Cuando se juntan con otros, piensan que éstos los entienden y están buscando lo mismo; también aquéllos imitan a éstos y de ahí es de donde se nutre su resistencia.
Lo que se espera de ellos corresponde a un postulado ascético y a menudo no tiene que ver lo más mínimo con lo nuevo que ellos intentan encontrar. En el fondo lo que la gente desea es que enloquezcan con su experimento y que al final acaben fracasando.
Luego, cuando estén locos o hayan muerto, es decir, cuando ya no sean un estorbo, puede que a los otros se les ocurra lo que ellos han hecho y lo exploten. No hay que darles excesiva importancia a estos imitadores; son gente que se aprovecha de lo que los otros inventaron en cierta ocasión; sin embargo, en definitiva, nosotros hacemos lo mismo.
Por esto, lo que uno desea es la pureza del experimento, su rigor, su aislamiento de todo lo que no sea él. Sólo entonces se cree en él; se quiere un experimento que no tenga historia. Los inventores y los santos se han fundido en un solo personaje.
Es posible que este híbrido que el hombre desea sea un monstruo, un engendro de una época en la que las religiones están en quiebra. Pero es posible también que lo único que necesitamos sea este personaje.
Estructuras por todas partes; el antisueño contra la destrucción.”
Source: The Human Province
“Institusi atau indikator seperti sekolah dan nilai adalah fiksi yang diciptakan untuk memaksa kita membandingkan diri dengan sekitar.”
Source: Menjadi: Seni Membangun Kesadaran tentang Diri dan Sekitar
“Institusi pendidikan tidak mengajarkan manusia untuk bebas bermanuver dalam pola pikir, tetapi untuk seragam dalam berpikir dan menciptakan manusia-manusia patuh dan siap berintegrasi dengan sistem. Taburlah benih-benih pemberontakan atas kemunafikan dan penyeragaman. Ciptakanlah karya-karya penopang pembaruan, literatur-literatur penjinak keberingasan sekte-sekte primitif warisan orde kegelapan.”
Source: Antitesis
“Instituting gender identity as a legal concept deconstructs what it means to human at its core: a biologically, sexually dimorphic species. This is the point. Gender is an obfuscation. The corporate state is deconstructing sex.”
Source: Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour
“Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations.”
“Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating moral critiques of American excesses, and so on, and also a communal role, in terms of building community as the country moved westward to the role my own Catholic Church played in assimilating generations of immigrants.”
“Institutional nepotism might be tolerated in prosperous times. Setbacks can become crises, however, when there is incompetence in key positions at crucial moments.”
“Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.”
“Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality.”
Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
“Institutional spiritual life needs you more than you need institutional spiritual life! Why? Because the former cannot live without you!”
“Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000 annually.”
“Institutional wisdom tells us that children need school. Institutional wisdom tells us that children learn in school. But this institutional wisdom is itself the product of schools because sound common sense tells us that only children can be taught in school. Only by segregating human beings in the category of childhood could we ever get them to submit to the authority of a schoolteacher.”
Source: Deschooling Society
“Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.”
“Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society tends to reduce, and even absorb opposition (the qualitative difference!) in the realm of politics and higher culture, so it does in the instinctual sphere. The result is the atrophy of the mental organs for grasping the contradictions and the alternatives and, in the one remaining dimension of technological rationality, the Happy Consciousness comes to prevail.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“Institutionalized education is the door and money is the key.”
“Institutionalized:
Ghetto stars pimped so hard for so long -- they'll starve to pimp themselves behind psychic bars.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Institutionalized motherhood demands of women maternal 'instinct' rather than intelligence, selflessness rather than self-realization, relation to others rather than the creation of self. Motherhood is 'sacred' so long as its offspring are 'legitimate' -- that is, as long as the child bears the name of a father who legally controls the mothe.r”
Source: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human difference between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.”
“Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked … fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be naked, you better get buff.”
“Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.”
Source: A Faith for Moderns
“Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.”
“Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality. — Mother Jones November/December 1997.”
“Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality.”
“Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.”
“Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.”
“Institutions do live on their history.”
“Institutions don’t lie; they simply edit the truth until it behaves.”
“Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.”
“Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.”
Source: How Institutions Think
“Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.”
Source: History of the United States, from the discovery of the amarican continent
“Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.”
“Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.”
“Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.”
“Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.”
Source: Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective
“Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions.”