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“Worldly life is based on ‘action’ and the spiritual life is based on ‘knowing’. One does the action and the other ‘sees’. The ‘doer’ and the ‘knower’ can never be the same, they are always separate. They were separate, they are separate and they will remain separate.”
“Worldly life is not an impediment; your obstinacies and your ignorance of the self are only the impediments.”
“Worldly life means it is ever changing. So where is the need for [worrying] ‘this will happen’ or ‘that will happen’? Why have attachment for that [someone] which shows regards towards you one day and disregard the next? It is worth having attachment for trikali vastu [eternal element that remains constant during the three-time span - past, present and future], which is one’s own (real) ‘nature’. And one should do attachment for the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] who graces you with the awareness of your Self. Never will a change occur in Him.”
Source: Die Wissenschaft von Karma
“Worldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!”
“Worldly Life [sansaar] means continuous-flow. The worldly life is that which is always changing [transforming].”
“Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Divine love is like the sky - limitless, infinite. From the bottom of the ocean soar into the vast sky”
Source: Celebrating Silence
“Worldly love is limited. Divine love is infinite.”
“Worldly people, you see, use far more wisdom, about their trifling affairs than unworldly people do about the affairs of God. They give their minds to what they are doing. And I say to you. Learn from them. Learn how to deal with the world and make friends with worldly people, so that when everything earthly fails you may know the way to their hearts. The man who is reliable in little things is reliable in great things too—and if you can’t handle the goods of this world, how can you be trusted to handle the true treasures of Heaven?”
Source: The Man Born to Be King
“Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none”
Source: Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary
“Worldly relationships are not true [are not real]; it is a ‘business arrangement’.”
“Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.”
“Worldly View is relative (temporary) religion and the enlightened one’s view is the essence, it is the real (eternal) religion. Relative (worldly) religion is not religion if it goes against people’s view.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and Cures of this English Malady, ... are --
“Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Worldly wisdom, on the other hand, is rooted in human pride and self-reliance. It is characterized by arrogance, independence, and a desire to please oneself. Worldly wisdom is limited to human understanding and is often based on temporary values.”
“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”
“Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.”
“Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.”
Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
“Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.”
Source: With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
“Worlds could be changed when we chose not to walk into a room operating as if everyone was our enemy.”
Source: The Betrayed
“Worlds don't GROW, Roland."
"Don't they? When I was a boy, Eddie, there were maps. I remember one in particular. It was called the Greater Kingdoms of the Western Earth. It showed my land, which was called by the name Gilead. It showed the Downland Baronies, which were overrun by riot and civil war in the year after I won my guns, and the hills, and the desert, and the mountains, and the Western Sea. It was a long distance from Gilead to the Western Sea--a thousand miles or more--but it had taken me over twenty years to cross that distance."
"That's impossible," Susannah said quickly, fearfully. "Even if you WALKED the whole distance it couldn't take twenty years."
"Well, you have to allow for stops to write postcards and drink beer," Eddie said, but they both ignored him.
"I didn't walk but rode most of the distance on horseback," Roland said. "I was--slowed up, shall we say?--every now and then, but for most of that time I was moving. Moving away from John Farson, who led the revolt which toppled the world I grew up in and who wanted my head on a pole in his courtyard--he had good reason to want that, I suppose, since I and my compatriots were responsible for the deaths of a great many of his followers--and because I stole something he held very dear."
"What, Roland?" Eddie asked curiously.
Roland shook his head. "That's a story for another day...or maybe never. For now, think not of that but of this: I've come MANY thousands of miles. Because the world is growing."
"A thing like that just can't happen," Eddie reiterated, but he was badly shaken, all the same. "There'd be earthquakes...floods...tidal waves...I don't know what all..."
"LOOK!" Roland said furiously. "Just look around you! What do you see? A world that is slowing down like a child's top even as it speeds up and moves on in some other way none of us understand. Look at your kills, Eddie! Look at your kills, for your father's sake!”
Source: The Waste Lands
“Worlds ended sometimes.”
Source: A Skinful of Shadows
“Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time.”
“Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are.”
“Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.”
“Worlds which had trembled for a moment in their orbits now steadied, and in one of those worlds, in a desert that was the apotheosis of all deserts, a man named Roland turned over in his bedroll and slept easily once again beneath the alien constellations.”
Source: Insomnia
“Worldviews are fake realities made up of past interpretations. Interpretations aren’t the same as observations, and they aren’t the same as experiences. Interpretations add to the experiences of the past, and what they add is unreliable. What they add ultimately consists of made-up stuff mixed with flawed memories of some things that may or may not have worked in the past.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account
“Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world”
Source: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
“Worldviews aren’t even directly pragmatic. Many parts of our worldviews don’t even work. They limit us. They interfere with us. They hold us down. Some parts of our worldviews may be accurate while other parts of our worldviews are wildly inaccurate. And yet, every part of every person’s worldview seems accurate to the person who owns the worldview.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account
“Worldviews have four elements that help us understand how a person's story fits together: creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. "Creation" tells us how things began, where everything came from (including us), the reason for our origins, and what ultimate reality is like. "Fall" describes the problem (since we all know something has gone wrong with the world). "Redemption" gives us the solution, the way to fix what went wrong. "Restoration" describes what the world would look like once the repair begins to take place.”
“Worldviews seem real but they aren’t real. Our worldviews tend to guide our thinking about everything. And then our assumptions come out of those worldviews.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account
“Worldwide, animal agriculture emits more carbon dioxide than any other single source.”
Source: Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.”
“Worldwide, the prospects of the fast-advancing quantum computing (r)evolution, will challenge the pre-quantum way of conducting scientific and industrial development by making digital transformation of societies, organizations, and financial markets fundamentally different.
Beyond the commercial research and development made possible by global corporations; universities; scientific communities; research laboratories… the nation states, we could presume, are interested the most in practical application of quantum technologies.”
“Worldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all-certainly not to Elsinore or the coast of Bohemia.”
“Worldwide, most people dress more casually these days, don't they? They have done for the last 20 or 30 years, I suppose. So, every place that I go to, the majority of people really wear jeans, trainers, T-shirt - everybody seems to dress more for comfort. Whereas, even in my lifetime, even up to the early-'70s, there was still that thing of dressing up.”
“Worldwide, our oceans are warming, rising, and becoming dangerously acidic as a result of carbon pollution and climate change - endangering much that we hold dear.”
“Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of power while simultaneously privatizing its most meaningful exercise. Democracy always seems to be at least slightly elusive under such conditions.”
“Worldy life is not wrong, it is worldly interaction (relative viewpoint). But You should Know Yourself (real viewpoint). Without Knowing your true Self, how can you simultaneously engage in worldly interaction? To possess a body is worldly interaction. However, the inquiry about 'Who am I?' still remains to be done, does it not? How long can there be darkness? Since infinite lifetimes, you have been wandering from one life to another. You have not wandered for one or two lifetimes; (but for) infinite lifetimes....”
Source: The Guru and The Disciple
“Worm has a negative sense whereas lover has a positive one. So, a person who enjoys reading should be called a 'book-lover', not a 'bookworm' because a worm destroys the book, but a lover loves, values, cherishes and protects it!”
“Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.”
“Worm theology is too high for me.”
“Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that adults might frown on the idea of multiply connected spaces, he wrote the book under a pseudonym and wrote it for children. His name was Charles Dodgson, his pseudonym was Lewis Carroll, and the book was Through The Looking Glass.”
Source: Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
“Worms are the intestines of the earth.”
“worms are the words but joy's the voice”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.”
“Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“Worn old shoes need a good cobbler to be repaired; but worn old thoughts, only a rubbish bin!”
“Worn out places, worn out faces.”