“Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.” StillsEarthSkySonMountainAmbitionLaughterRaisesVainToilMadmenSurveysMy Ambition Book:The Works of Alexander Pope Esq Source: The Works of Alexander Pope Esq
“In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.” WantLittlesEarthFightingEnvironmentPlanetsRaisesComplainingWho I AmFriendlyComplaintsBugsLeaving MeOur EnvironmentMe AlonePlanet EarthLeave Me AloneCocoons Author:Chogyam Trungpa
“Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.” SaidEarthSpiritSpiritualityNamesEffectsReadyMastersArgumentRaisesPracticalsHeightOffenseSkepticDown To Earth Author:Anthony de Mello
“The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.” IfsThinkingLooksIdeasEarthTogetherFacesFormIndividualBecomingReflectionHarmonyRaisesScalesStaringCoveredGrainExpansionDomainEnvelopes Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.” MayBodyLightEarthLastsHeavenGrowthFameRaisesPlantSeedsAwfulCompareSparksBlastTrumpetsTorchesLight UpArchangelPosthumous Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.” MenGivingBelieveLongDoeEarthMovingSpiritSufferingEvilFatherBearsSorrowRaisesBlessedBreatheSteadfastRaise Up Author:Homer