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“The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty. When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape. The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.”

Feels Looks Real Enough Lost Wish Water Nature Knowledge Drinking Greed Hunger Satisfaction Emptiness Inward True Nature Thirsty Salty

Book:The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

Source: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature. This is because Zen has come to the definite conclusion that the ordinary logical process of reasoning is powerless to give final satisfaction to our deepest spiritual needs.”

Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.”

Way Nature Air Breaths Caught Satisfaction Bees Caught Up Fragrance Drowsy

Book:The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”

Spiritual Spirituality Nature Keys Intellectual Environmental Satisfaction Aesthetic Cognitive Dissonance Cognitive Science Self-satisfaction Cognitive Dissonance

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

“If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.”

Ifs Want Humans Real Science Suffering Nature Pleasure Mankind Students Solutions Research Charity Satisfaction Puzzles Advise Alleviate Human Suffering

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.”

“When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction. Would it not be wiser if he should say 'Foiled again! I can find out no more about Nature along this line.'”

Ifs Giving Should May I Can Science Certain Nature Natural Lines Theory Satisfaction Range Formulas Representation Wiser Investigators

Author:Arthur Eddington

“Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.”

Mind Science Nature Doubt Students Particular Satisfaction Suspicion

Author:Francis Bacon