T Quotes
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“The essential ingredient of politics is timing.”
“The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment.”
Source: The Psychology of Romantic Love
“The essential ingredients of these struggles for justice are human beings who, if only for a moment, if only while beset with fears, step out of line and do "something", however small. And even the smallest, most unheroic of acts adds to the store of kindling that may be ignited by some surprising circumstance into tumultuous change.”
“The essential insanity of fighting the truth is that we are fighting against the very thing that is incessantly fighting for us.”
“The essential insight and consistent point of view of Islam is tawhid: the fundamental Oneness underlying all of existence. From the perspective of tawhid, everything is emerging from God, being sustained by God, and ultimately returning to God. This has profound significance for all of our experience within this existence. All areas of human knowledge are related to this fundamental, unifying Truth. Sufism is the science, the objective knowledge, of the souls relationship to God. This science describes an Origin, a downward arc of manifestation, and an upward arc of return. In the arc of manifestation, everything is coming down from God into successive levels of ever denser realities. In the arc of return, we recognize our Origin and begin the journey back toward its light. This essentially means that we ourselves must become more conscious of the light within ourselves.
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The arc of return calls us to make a journey from darkness and toward the light. The immediate darkness we face around us is the imaginary world created by human ignorance, fear, self-righteousness, and hatred. We must not succumb to the mass heedlessness and self-hypnotism which presents itself to us, mostly through the mass media, as the so-called real world.
It is our responsibility to find and act upon the knowledge that can guide us in that journey. This means establishing the truth of tawhid within our own minds and hearts.
~ Essays and talks by Kabir Helminski/Breathe And Remember”
“The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits. I've swallowed three hooks and am still hungry. Hence the howls. What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but strech out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for eternity.”
“The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.”
“The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven asporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.”
Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
“The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development”
“The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire”
“The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.”
Source: Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
“The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.”
Source: Middlesex: A Novel
“The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.”
“The essential message of my life is that all of us have the capacity to attract to ourselves what seems to be missing in our lives. Whether it's a healing, a relationship, a promotion, or whatever form of abundance you want to manifest in your life, you have much more power to be able to manifest it than you might think.”
“The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.”
Source: The Promise of American Life
“The essential nature of samvit is the subtle stir of spanda. The introverted and extroverted movements of spanda cause samvit to manifest itself in both the noumenal and phenomenal aspects of creation. These two aspects of samvit are known in Shaivism as Shiva (transcendent) and Shakti (universal). Shiva and Shakti are the two names given to the monistic Absolute (Paramasiva) when it is being considered in its dual aspects of eternal and transcendent changelessness (Shiva), and the ever-changing and immanent manifestation of universal appearances (Shakti).
— B. N. Pandit, Specific Principles of Kashmir Shaivism (3rd ed., 2008), p. 17–18.”
Source: Specific Principles of Kashmir Saivism [Hardcover] [Apr 01, 1998] Paṇḍita, BalajinnaÌ"tha
“The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living
creatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were in
repose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless.”
Source: The Doors of Perception
“The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.”
Source: Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest
“The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion.. ..the idea of modernity is but a new attachment of things universal - a fresh relationship to the courses of the sun and to the living swing of the earth - a new fire of affection for the living essence present everywhere.”
“The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.”
“The essential of the guild-idea is that [of] men pursuing the same form of activity, but only in cooperation limited to the end of preserving the economic freedom-that is the property and livelihood-of each member of the guild.”
Source: The Crisis Of Civilization
“The essential oneness of the universe is not only the central characteristic of the mystical experience but is also one of the most important revelations of modern physics.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return”
“The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.”
Source: The Road to Wigan Pier
“The essential point of finding a relaxed posture is to be able to sit in a position that is comfortable enough, so while staying awake and alert, you can almost forget about your body.”
Source: Guide to the Mindful Way of Life
“The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.”
“The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process”
Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
“The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant, perfect and eternal.”
“The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer
When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.”
“The essential purpose of astrology is not so much to tell us what we will meet on our road, as it is to suggest how to meet it – and the basic reason for the meeting. Which quality in us, which type of strength is needed to go through any specific phase of our total unfoldment as an individual person.”
“The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding, and through such understanding, a sympathetic appeciation of the other's point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship, and good will are the cornerstones.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.”
Source: The chrysalids
“The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"”
“The essential question is not, however, how love began, but whether it is growing.”
Source: The Seven Cardinal Virtues
“The essential religion is taking the whole responsibility for whatsoever you are. And immediately an insight arises: 'If I am responsible for my suffering, then it is simple, I can drop it. It is my choice. I will not choose it any more.'”
“The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter.”
“The essential self is fixed well before the thirteenth birthday. It may be influenced by experience but it is seldom changed.”
Source: Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales
“The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.”
“The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.”
“The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.”
“The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.”
“The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.”
“The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.”
“The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.”
“The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God.”
Source: Complete Works
“The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.”
Source: Evolution: Its Nature, Its Evidences, and Its Relation to Religious Thought
“The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.”
“The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.”
“The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.”
Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes
“The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.”
Source: The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method