“For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.” PeopleWorldHardStatesEnoughBodyLightActionSpiritualUniverseCoursesLeftAttentionSeeingAirFieldsPressureWideSensesInvisibleDevelopingVisibleCorrespondenceGreat Spiritual Author:Evelyn Underhill
“The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.” BookAgeFormCommonAirRevolutionShapesSpreadInvisibleInnocentContactAgentsBreathingOutlookEpidemicsGermsCarrierContamination Author:Arthur Koestler
“My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing 'wind choreography,' making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the human eye. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature - wind, light, water.” HumansLightEyeMovingForceWaterEnvironmentPiecesAirMovementWindCurrentsInvisibleBreathingVisibleAnimatedRough TimesChoreographyForces Of NatureHuman Eyes Author:Janet Echelman
“Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.” MenFirstsFoundWishAcceptingKnowingAirFeetOceanTrackInvisibleBeastWildernessThreadNot KnowingPathways Book:Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible, are less expensive and less expressive than the plain doing of duty. To have bread excite thankfulness and a drink of water send the heart to God is better than sighs for the unattainable. To plow a straight furrow on Monday or dust a room well on Tuesday or kiss a bumped forehead on Wednesday is worth more than the most ecstatic thrill under Sunday eloquence. Spirituality is seeing God in common things, and showing God in common tasks.” WellsHeartDreamSpiritualityWaterRoomsCommonSeeingAirDutyDrinkKissingTasksLongingInvisibleBreadFlightDustFancyExpensiveHeavenlySundayThrillSighMondayThankfulnessEloquenceForeheadsEcstaticTuesdayExpressiveWednesdayUnattainableCommon Things Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer.” ChildrenFactsHandsFacesAsksLinesHappenedAirHairHearingInvisibleHypocrisyAshamedGrayUnseenSighThankfulnessAltarsWrinklesRadiantHymnsPsalmsAnthemVacantKneelingGray HairInquirers Author:Joseph Parker
“What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.” ThinkingWritingArtBookWould BeEarthTogetherArtistLanguageSupportAirSubjectsStyleInvisibleThoughtfulAttachmentExterior Author:Gustave Flaubert
“Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the shimmering shadows the nuances of color that he transformed into the invisible core of his silent symphony.” AgePastAirObjectsColorShadowSilentCoreInvisibleFiftyTransformedTwilightSymphonyCatchingNuance Author:Elie Faure
“Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life.” MenMatterSocialAnimalPovertyMagicAirInvisibleMannersDumbTemperGlobesToilComfortingSecrecyIntercourseWovenStrandsOutrun Author:Robert Bridges
“I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the deepest emotions within. It took me a while to learn that whatever I feel like doing is the right thing. If I want to play an invisible instrument, I will.” IfsWantFeelsPlayEmotionAirInstrumentsFingersInvisibleRight Thing Author:Jill Scott