“All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.” MomentsFormExistenceConsciousnessGoneSkyIgnoranceIllusionManifestDisplayFlashMomentary Author:Frederick Lenz
“The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.” SelfMomentsPastIgnoranceSense Of SelfPast ExperiencesSamsara Author:Frederick Lenz
“At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.” MomentsPurposeSufferingIgnoranceIllusionForgottenPurpose Of LifeSanskrit Author:Frederick Lenz
“To suffer because of anything you see, feel or experience here in the world of moment to moment is a mistake. It is like becoming upset over a frightening dream.” WorldFeelsMomentsDreamSufferingMistakeIgnoranceBecomingUpsetFrightening Author:Frederick Lenz
“The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.” SelfMomentsFormIndividualMovementIgnoranceBoundsWaveSamsara Author:Frederick Lenz
“Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.” IdeasMomentsMovingPlansIgnoranceCommitmentOneselfCommittedCommitInitiativeProvidenceBoldnessSplendidIncidentsUnforeseenMoment Of TruthInspirational CommitmentBoldness And CourageIneffectivenessBold Moves Author:Steven Pressfield
“I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride.” ThinkingMomentsJobsSuccessIgnorancePrideVictoryQuietConceptsVariousIndifferenceColleaguesBureaucracyHornsPatronBest Moments Author:Paul Lester Wiener
“Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.” PeopleIfsDifferentMomentsCan DoConsciousnessSubjectsPossibilityIgnoranceDeeperDebateAddressesSomething NewPoolPausesAngleEntrancesTotalityDurationGazingDifferent AnglesPausing Author:Seamus Heaney
“I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.” KnowsWorldYearsMindHumansHas BeensMomentsLastsLife IsSpiritCertainEnergyGivenCausesMy OwnVirtueIgnoranceRegretConsciousNobleLiberationUselessHuman MindDedicatedInertiaTimidityPrecious GiftsNoble Causes Author:Maya Angelou
“It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.” MomentsLightFaithInterestDoubtSeaIgnoranceHighestConnectedQuittingRevelationsInquiryHumiliating Author:Charles Caleb Colton