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“Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.”

Ifs Ends Found Lost Opinion Ignorance Profession Thee Hypocrisy Righteousness Woe Malice Exalted Formality Woe Unto

Book:An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

Source: An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.”

Important Humanity Lost Stars Ignorance Burden Ignorant Folly Thrive Superstitions Space Exploration Atheistic Juvenile Juvenile Justice

Author:Isaac Asimov

“What is gained through ignorance is bound to be lost through ignorance”

Lost Ignorance Bounds

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“India saw from the beginning, - and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, - that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.”

Reason Light Age Lost Saws Ignorance India Insight Sole Sri Lanka Age Of Reason Externalities

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.”

Long Country Lost Natural Ignorance Resources Rivers Consumers Reserves Herds Natural Resources Mississippi Buffalo Mississippi River

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing." Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make....I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do.”

Knows Want Feels Mind Facts Found Lost Knowing Ignorance Claims Statements Not Knowing Self Knowledge Astonishment

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.”

“The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”

Ideas Action Lost Heaven Silence Century Information Ignorance Speech Twenties Endless Experiments Invention Dust Cycles Stillness Ideas And Action

Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

“The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.”

May Found Lost Ignorance Lessons Ordinary Miracle Sacred Scared Neighbor Flight Daily Life Elsewhere Family And Friends Miraculous Backyards Confronting Neighbors Friends

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and crippled bird. For then, for One brief instant it was not blind, nor Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the Heart was free and moved itself. O love, I who am lost and damned with words, Whose words are a business and an art, I have no words. These words, this poem, this Is all confusion and ignorance. But I know that coached by your sweet heart, My heart beat one free beat and sent Through all my flesh the blood of truth.”

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Author:Kenneth Rexroth

““Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” This sentence alone would save mankind, if all books and prophets were lost. This purity of heart will bring the vision of God. It is the theme of the whole music of this universe. In purity is no bondage. Remove the veils of ignorance by purity; then we manifest ourselves as we really are and know that we were never in bondage. The seeing of 'many' is the great sin of all the world. See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness go.”

“Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.”