“Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.” WorldDoeMatterStatesSpiritualYogaTraditionAbsolutesObjectivesRealizationIsolationSublimeWorldlyExalted Author:Rod Stryker
“I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.” IfsIdeasRealityWantedUniverseFeltImaginationHalfWonderBloodCreaturesAbsolutesStrongerFleshSensesSubstanceRealmsIsolationLastingTerrifiedMoldCapturedFlesh And BloodGelatin Author:Isabel Allende
“Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.” StatesBodyEyeFacesLeftGrowsUnderstandingAnimalBehindsWatchesSawsAcceptanceHairWallAbsolutesMoodObjectivesDesertGentleIsolationElectricLightningHer EyesTestingRestlessVividRetiredZoosWild AnimalLilithAnticsRacehorses Author:Anais Nin
“Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.” HumansTwoObjectsNegativeAbsolutesRepeatsIsolationCrucialHuman ExperiencePremises Author:Alfred Korzybski
“Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.” KnowsMenSelfDarknessSeaLonelinessAbsolutesIslandsIsolation Author:Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
“If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.” IfsLeftLanguageTeachConditionsHumilityPerspectiveAbsolutesLifetimeOneselfIsolationExileAccelerate Author:Joseph Brodsky
“Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.” StatesAbsolutesWho You AreAriseFirmIsolationDimensionsBelongingConformityWithin YouNothingnessNon Conformity Book:I Loved You All Source: I Loved You All