“Without a body and without time, I wasn't disturbed by my ego or by the function or dysfunction of my brain and memory. And during my pure perception within the source, I had no opinion either. I didn't even have an 'I.' An opinion is tied to the ego, and the ego to the body. Without any of this, there was only objective consciousness.” InspirationalBodyMemoriesBrainConsciousnessOpinionSourcePureEgoPerceptionFunctionObjectivesTiedDisturbedDysfunction Author:Pim van Lommel
“Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms, reducing its particularizing structure to pure sublime feeling (immediacy); but spirit is more successfully infinite than soul, even though also more difficult and abstruse, because it digests the functions of consciousness into itself and thus preserves and deploys the senses and intelligence of conscious ego to higher ends.” SoulEndsFeelingsMightSpiritDifficultConsciousnessHigherPureEgoConsciousFunctionInfiniteStructureSensesPreservesSublimeReducingAbolishImmediacy Author:Kenny Smith
“There's also an aspect which I tried to express yesterday by saying the same "something" that looks out through Curlys eyes is also the same exact thing which looks out of Moe's eyes, and that's harder for people to grasp. So the thing is, you have to find a way to ultimately embrace both sides or else you can't function. If you only embrace the side of pure oneness then you end up sort of spacing out and sitting under a blanket.” PeopleIfsWayLooksEndsEyeSidesPureSittingAspectFunctionHarderEmbraceYesterdayOnenessBoth SidesBlanketSpacing Author:Brad Warner
“When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, a lot of people. I never had that. I was so glad to be rid of all that crap that for me, to learn again and to function as a human being and learn how to participate in the human race again was just pure joy.” PeopleHumansJoyDifficultHuman BeingsRacePeriodsPureFunctionGladHuman RaceCrapRehabPure Joy Author:Elton John
“Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta, buddha-consciousness: a mind which functions as a no-mind, a mind which dreams no more, thinks no more, a mind which is just awareness, pure awareness.” ThinkingMindWholeDreamRememberEffortConsciousnessAwarenessPureFunctionEndeavor Author:Rajneesh
“Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer's reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window.” WhitePurePhotographyReflectionWindowFunctionMirrorsPhotographerPhotographDescriptionFrankNow And ThenMinorsGlimpse Author:Alec Soth
“The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.” HumansMayEndsReasonPhilosophyRealitySpiritPureAuthorityUltimateFunctionPursuitDenialAssumptionSuspectsHidingFrankInquiryAdmissionHuman ThoughtHiding PlaceIncapacityUltimate Reality Author:Muhammad Iqbal
“A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives worthwhile. My teacher, and one of the founders of the Pratt industrial design program, Rowena Reed Kostellow, said, "Pure, unadulterated beauty should be the goal of civilization." From a pragmatic point of view, for something to be beautiful, it has to work. In order to make this idea clearer I have combined the ideas of beauty and function into one word: Beautility.” MenShouldMadeSaidIdeasBeautifulOrderUniverseGoalPleasureViewsTeacherOur LivesDesignProduceCivilizationPureProgramCriticismFunctionPoint Of ViewWorthwhileFoundersBeautiful ThingsOne WordPragmaticReedsIndustrial DesignMan Made Things Author:Tucker Viemeister