“When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.” MindHeartStillsLightBeautifulAttentionMeditationConditionsFieldsBuddhismQuietEgoSubtleJoyousEcstatic Author:Frederick Lenz
“As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster, more beautiful state of awareness.” StatesBeautifulMovingSpaceConsciousnessMeditationConditionsAwarenessBuddhismTime And Space Author:Frederick Lenz
“The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.” MenLittlesDifferentFeelingsBeautifulCertainValuesCasesConditionsTypeDifferent ThingsPreservationHerds Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“If l give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something greater than producing a profit, maybe you will get more creative, maybe you will want to work more.” IfsKnowsWantGivingFeelsLittlesBeautifulUsedBitsCreativeGreaterConditionsLittle BitProfitAbout YourselfBeautiful Places Author:Brunello Cucinelli
“The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.” TwoBeautifulNaturalCommonHistoryEnvironmentConditionsOrdinaryCriticismHistoricalExtraordinarySuspectsReally GreatMaximsAxiomsImprobable Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.” MenGivingShouldMindImportantHandsBeautifulCultureConditionsLaborLuxurySensibilityExcludedCoarse Author:William Ellery Channing
“If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.” IfsBookBeautifulConditionsFineKingsClothesGardenWineDinnerCoachesServantPalacesBeautiful Clothes Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with her in extreme but beautiful conditions adds to the experience and our relationship.” DoeBeautifulWifeConditionsMountainAddExtremesMy WifeOur RelationshipMixturesAestheticsCyclingEndorphinsLove My WifeI Love My Wife Author:Gary Kemp