“The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.” PeopleRealSelfHelpingFeelingsBreakSawsTeachingIgnoranceProudWake UpPrisonNotionGuiltyRevolutionaryRisingLionsTidesTrappedHelping PeopleMuch LoveReal PowerFeeling Guilty Author:Nhat Hanh
“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.” ReasonLightAgeLostSawsIgnoranceIndiaInsightSoleSri LankaAge Of ReasonExternalities Author:Sri Aurobindo
“I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands that were rising up out of the oceans. Then I would take time off and read, sometimes for months, then I would write more of what I knew, and saw what I could see, as much as the story as I could see. And then at a certain point I had to write out what I thought was the plot because it was so hard to keep it all together in my head. And then I started to write in a more linear way.” WayWritingSometimesHardStoriesTogetherCertainSawsIgnoranceMonthsOceanIslandsRisingLakesPlotTake TimeLinearTime OffRising UpGreat Lakes Author:Rebecca Miller
“Master Michelangelo once said that 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!” MenSaidBlackSawsIgnoranceMastersAngelIgnorantMarble Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend so much time on petition. I saw that it is indeed more worthy of God and more truly pleasing to him that through his goodness we should pray with full confidence, and by his grace cling to him with real understanding and unshakeable love, than that we should go on making as many petitions as our souls are capable of.” WayShouldMindRealSoulUnderstandingPrayerPracticeSawsGraceIgnoranceGoes OnPrayingGoodnessCapableWorthyPetitionsInexperienceWay Of Love Author:Julian of Norwich
“With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.” TogetherSocialSidesInterestSawsIgnoranceMaterialsBecomingDullHypocrisyAssociationShiverForeboding Book:The Age of Innocence Source: The Age of Innocence
“And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.” IfsHas BeensMatterSeemsHappensCausesViewsLordSawsWiseIgnoranceLuckAccidentsPoint Of ViewProvidenceBlindnessOur LordLord GodForeseeing Author:Julian of Norwich
“The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea.” MenIdeasReligionForceParentSawsIgnoranceCuriosityManifestationFancyConceptionSuperstitionsPrimitiveSinisterIgnorance And FearPrimitive Man Book:Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature