“Extraordinary potential exists in all of us. With the right environment, resources, skills and knowledge, 'ordinary' people can produce extraordinary results.” PeopleResultsEnvironmentProduceSkillsOrdinaryResourcesExtraordinaryOrdinary PeopleSkills And Knowledge Author:Kevin Eikenberry
“The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.” TwoBeautifulNaturalCommonHistoryEnvironmentConditionsOrdinaryCriticismHistoricalExtraordinarySuspectsReally GreatMaximsAxiomsImprobable Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Doing work which has to be done over and over again helps us recognize the natural cycles of growth and decay, of birth and death, and thus become aware of the dynamic order of the universe. "Ordinary" work, as the root meaning of the term indicates, is work that is in harmony with the order we perceive in the natural environment.” DoneHelpingOrderUniverseGrowthTermNaturalEnvironmentBirthOrdinaryRootsHarmonyPerceiveCyclesDecayNatural EnvironmentBirth And Death Author:Fritjof Capra
“A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.” CommonEnvironmentOrdinaryGrantedRelatedThemeExplorationExistentialBlindnessRecurringRecurring Themes Author:Vera Nazarian
“It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.” ThinkingPowerfulBehindsPracticeEnvironmentMeditationIdentityOrdinarySupportiveConductorMeditation Practice Author:Sharon Salzberg
“The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.” MenWorldMightEnvironmentOrdinaryExtraordinaryBoundariesThriveEntity Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper
“The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary working Americans. And now it looks as if it never will.” IfsLooksHas BeensEnvironmentEconomicProduceOrdinaryGainsProfitSignificantCorporateExpansion Author:Paul Krugman
“When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?” ScienceEnvironmentTreeSkyHigherOrdinaryShadowAncientWoodsStrikesAwfulBranchesStillnessDoomedDeitiesGloomGroveForests And TreesCavernsGreen TreesTree BranchesAncient Trees Author:Seneca the Younger