T Quotes
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“The simplest form of meditation requires two things: a body that is still and relaxed, and an object to focus attention on. Many traditional postures for meditation exist. I have found the greatest ease and stability sitting in a chair, with the spine erect and the palms of the hands resting on the knees. The focus of attention that I have found most useful for the beginners is the awareness of breathing combined with a mental focus: „I“ as a feeling in the heart with each inhalation and „am“ as a sensation of the whole physical presence on the exhalation. It should be understood that this is not the „I“ of the ego as we commonly know it, but an I-ness rooted in the heart, an „I-ness-without I.“ (p. 56)”
Source: Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self
“The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.”
“The simplest formular for a fulfilled life is; God+Wisdom+Industry! God is the source of your destiny and purpose; Wisdom is the potential he gives to you to make right choices; Your industry reveals your responsibility to release whatever the God of your purpose introduced you to by your divine thoughts and imaginations!”
“The simplest idea of someone coming to your home to pamper you at a time when all your energy is being expended to fight a personal battle, is much more than just feeling good about how you look. Beauty Bus gives its clients renewed internal strength to keep fighting.”
“The simplest is always the most difficult.”
“The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.”
Source: Archaeological Decipherment: A Handbook
“The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.”
“The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.”
“The simplest moments often hold the richest joy… True joy dwells not in grandeur, but in the quiet grace of ordinary moments.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The simplest of things can teach us the most profound wisdom!”
“The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.”
“The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.”
“The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.”
“The simplest questions are the most difficult.”
“The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.”
“The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
“The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.”
“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.”
“The simplest science book is over my head.”
Source: Collected Prose
“The simplest secret of reaching any place is to start walking! If people say you can't reach there, close your ears to them and continue walking!”
“The simplest secret to success is to cross the limits that often come your way!”
“The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.”
Source: The Silent Pulse
“The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don't love. Besides that, we invariably feel bored with ourselves, and all of our loneliness comes to the surface.We won't have the courage to go into that terrifying place without Love to protect us and lead us, without the light and love of God overriding our own self-doubt. Such silence is the most spacious and empowering technique in the world, yet it's not a technique at all. It's precisely the refusal of all technique.”
“The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)”
“The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.”
“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.”
“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.”
“The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.”
Source: The Nobodies Album
“The simplest things are often the truest.”
“The simplest things are overlooked. And yet, it is the simplest things that are the most essential.”
Source: Painted Oxen
“The simplest things give me ideas.”
“The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.”
“The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.”
“The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.”
Source: Writing a Book That Makes a Difference
“The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.”
Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson
“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth. In all sobriety, he has much more of the external appearance of one bringing alien habits from another land than of a mere growth of this one.
He cannot sleep in his own skin; he cannot trust his own instincts. He is at once a creator moving miraculous hands and fingers and a kind of cripple. He is wrapped in artificial bandages called clothes; he is propped on artificial crutches called furniture. His mind has the same doubtful liberties and the same wild limitations. Alone among the animals, he is shaken with the beautiful madness called laughter; as if he had caught sight of some secret in the very shape of the universe hidden from the universe itself. Alone among the animals he feels the need of averting his thought from the root realities of his own bodily being; of hiding them as in the presence of some higher possibility which creates the mystery of shame.”
Source: The Everlasting Man
“The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.”
“The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.”
Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“The simplest way for me to look at the law of attraction is if I think of myself as a magnet, and I know that a magnet will attract to it.”
“The simplest way of becoming his light is by being kind and loving, thoughtful, and sincere with others: 'By this they will know that you are his disciples.'”
“The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.”
“The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.”
“The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.”
“The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.”
“The simplest way to better the world is one good deed at a time.”
“The simplest way to customize is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your session and why they expect it. Then use their quotes throughout your presentation.”
“The simplest way to enjoy an open door is to move on from a closed door.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention the other the conditions that also associate with obesity and diabetes, such as gout, asthma, and fatty liver disease), is that what makes us fat - the quality and quantity of carbohydrates we consume - also makes us sick.”
“The simplest way to make a coward courageous is to convince them that you admire their courage.”
“The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction