T Quotes
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“The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.”
Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words
“The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.”
“The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the earth, it would not exist.”
“The world, right now, is only us.”
Source: Every Day
“The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.”
“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.”
Source: Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes
“The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.”
Source: This Business of Living
“The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn't bind them together with stories.”
Source: Starting Out in the Evening
“The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.”
Source: For the birds
“The world, the way we look at women and sexuality, is what needs to change - not our behavior, not who we are, not what we say. It's the intentions that should change. It's the mind-set. Otherwise, we're just going to be a completely confused society with not knowing what to say to one another. The mind-set of when you meet a woman is that you should try and get to know her.”
“The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.”
Source: Pamela Volume 1: Samuel Richardson Collections
“The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.”
Source: The Divine Milieu
“The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.”
Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?”
Source: The range of light: photographs
“The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.”
Source: Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
“The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.”
Source: Religio medici, and other works
“The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.”
Source: South Riding
“The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.”
Source: The Nature and Practice of Yoga
“The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.”
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
“The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.”
“The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.”
Source: Night
“The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes a rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way”
“The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.”
“The worldly consequences of my declaration were severe, not just in lost record sales but also in some of the reactions from religious people, which ranged from attempts to use me for their own purposes to condemnations and exclusions from their particular folds.”
Source: Cash
“The worldly fountain does not breed spiritual depth.”
“The worldly knowledge that you have received, do not dispense justice on the basis of that worldly knowledge. I have spoken of 'vyavasthit' (result of scientific circumstantial evidences), dispense justice on the basis of that Knowledge. The basis of worldly knowledge will torment you. If worldly knowledge dispels then worldly life goes. It is with the Knowledge of vyavasthit, that worldly knowledge dispels.”
Source: Aptavani-2
“The worldly life can never be crossed with the worldly vision (lok-drashti). The worldly life can be crossed with the enlightened one’s vision (Gnani’s vision).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free.”
“The worldly life is an ‘ocean’. People have drowned in it without any water in it.
One can be saved if he drowns in the ocean water, but how can he be saved if he has drowned in this ocean of worldly life?”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, ‘you can keep on burning!”
“The worldly life is created through wrong understanding and is dissolved through understanding. The Gnani Purush (Enlightened One) gives all types of perceptions so that there is no need to read scriptures.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“The worldly life just goes round and round; there is no end to it. If you want to bring an end to it, ask the Gnani Purush [The enlightened one], ‘How long do I have to keep on wandering? I have been going round and round like the ox running the millwheel. Tell the Gnani Purush ‘please bring about a resolution for me!”
“The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.”
“The worldly life means a vision with attachment-abhorrence, and with vitrag (void of attachment) vision is moksha. What is the measure of vitrag (void of attachment) vision? That which sees the whole world as flawless.”
Source: The Flawless Vision
“The worldly life means something superficial. When people speak during their interactions, they put a ‘full stop’ there, but no, there should be a ‘comma’ there. People have put a full stop there. ‘I am Chandubhai’ - there should be a comma there and ‘I am Pure Soul’ – there should be a full stop there.”
“The worldly life relationships are that of selfishness. All relationships are relative (temporary). Only the relationship with the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] is real. He has infinite compassion for you. He has become one with his soul [atma swaroop] and therefore he brings forth all your solutions (and liberates you).”
“The worldly life remains [and is not ending and one is not going to moksha] due to the pollution of the mind [bad mind/bad thoughts] and not due to the pollution of the body.”
“The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries.”
“The worldly life (sansaar) means a museum of dependency.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“The worldly life [the relative] means 'superfluous'. Instead of superfluous, people believe it to be real (of nischaya) and then they even say, ‘this is indeed the way it should be, that is indeed the way it should be done.”
“The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.”
Source: Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality
“The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.”
“The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.”
Source: Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul
“The worldly [spiritual] science is methodic (kramic) in nature; one progresses “step by step”; one has to ascent one step at a time. Whereas this here, is Akram Vignan, a path of step-less spiritual science; it is a science that has arisen after 10 Lac (a million) years. In this path, one travels in only an ‘elevator’. There is no effort to climb stairs here. Thereafter, one is constantly in the uninterrupted bliss of the Self (samadhi). There is constant bliss amidst mental affliction (aadhi), internal suffering (vyadhi) and externally induced affliction (oopadhi).”
“The worldly vision is filled with infinite infatuations and attachments and no one can escape from it; [hence] there is no alternative other than staying in Gnani’s feet [surrendering to the enlightened one is the only alternative].”