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“Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.”

Source: Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World

“When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.”

Knows Reality Would Be Process Animal Tree Models Photograph Make Out

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.”

Source: The Deer Family

“Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story will evolve, but as storytelling animals, we will no more give it up than start walking on all fours.”

Way Giving Stories Reality Turns Games Animal Tvs Walking Despair Video Storytelling Evolve Reality Tv Fours

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God's sanctity”

Men Has Beens Real Self Reality Animal Happened Guilt Instinct Cruelty Torture Affirmation Sanctity Fling Animal Instinct

Book:Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

“We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived of that reasoning power which projects upon things the light of certainty; on the contrary we bring to bear on the spectacle of life only a dubious vision, extinguished anew every moment by oblivion, the former reality fading before that which follows it as one projection of a magic lantern fades before the next as we change the slide.”

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove

“In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.”

World Way Reality Stars Water Animal Quality Tree Stones Interiors Ineffable Iceberg Tip Of The Iceberg

Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.”

Men Reality Animal Possession Faculty Uncertain

Book:The essential Colin Wilson

Source: The essential Colin Wilson

“The issue of animal use and abuse can seem insurmountable, it is tragic and it is complex. We love our companion animals and we value wildlife but we are generally blind to the realities of what goes into the food we eat.”

Use Reality Seems Values Animal Issues Abuse Blind Complexes Tragic Companion Wildlife Insurmountable Companion Animals Use And Abuse

Author:Liz Marshall

“We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct takes over your capability to really think things through.”

People Thinking Sometimes Reality Animal Brain Smart Instinct Over You Capability Smart People Really Smart Animal Instinct

Author:Cristian Machado