“When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment.” LifeNeedsGivingMomentsEffortNeededEssentialsFlowTasksPresent Moment Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“[To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.” WayNeedsHas BeensPlayNightActorsAudienceFrontsNeededInvolvedEssentialsSittingTheaterOpeningTonightDeniedEquipmentHandicappedOpening Night Author:Hallie Flanagan
“One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.” KindRealityFormTheoryNeededEssentialsCommitmentDeeperFeaturesAbstractWholenessUnbroken Book:Wholeness and the Implicate Order Source: Wholeness and the Implicate Order
“People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the discourse of science or logic related directed to the external world. The other was mythos, what the Greeks called myth, which didn't mean a fantasy story, but it was a narrative associated with ritual and ethical practice but it helped us to address problems for which there were no easy answers, like mortality, cruelty, the sorrow that overtakes us all that's part of the human condition. And these two were not in opposition, we needed both.” PeopleWorldWayHumansMeanTwoReasonStoriesProblemEasyAnswersPracticeFantasyConditionsNeededSorrowEssentialsLogicMythCrueltyNarrativeGreekRelatedAddressesOppositionMortalityEthicalRitualHuman ConditionDiscourseTwo WaysLogosEasy AnswersFantasy Stories Author:Karen Armstrong
“[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.” ImportantHelpingTodayFocusNeededEssentials Author:Raoul Peck
“Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and problem solve.” MenNeedsWellsHelpingUseProblemStrongAbilityPlanetsNeededEssentialsResourcesSolveSeedsRighteousStrong Man Author:Roseanne Barr
“Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour.” IfsShouldCareActionRealizingNeededEssentialsElementsMereRevelationsConsiderationAttributesInnateDecorationSplendourAttributes Of God Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.” HumansHuman BeingsFantasyNeededEssentialsGuidesThreadFabricLabyrinthAriadne Author:Lloyd Alexander