“I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.” ThinkingWholeSufferingAbsolutesEmbraceTribesRenounce Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.” MindMayDoeIdeasPlayGodPainEnjoyInvolvedNegativeAspectLaborAll ThingsAbsolutesEmbraceUnityEarnestnessPlatitudesTruism Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being . . . in the absolute. . . . When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.” RealizingViewsEmotionConceptsAbsolutesEmbraceBlockWelcomeRejectsRelativeFleetingTransparentThoughts And Emotions Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.” IfsSometimesHardClearBrokenEthicsImportanceAbsolutesEmbraceGlassesTortureContradictionProhibition Author:Julian Baggini
“I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.” ThinkingSometimesRealityUsedSufferingHateGivenEasierConceptsOppositesAbsolutesEmbraceComplexes Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“And when Paul dove to embrace me, the look on his face was one of absolute, perfect joy—the kind of joy that can't be reproached, stolen, or marred—the kind that only the innocent or the ignorant are capable of experiencing.” LooksKindFacesJoyPerfectCapableAbsolutesEmbraceIgnorantInnocentStolenDove Book:How to Kill a Rock Star Source: How to Kill a Rock Star