“My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.” WantWritingWellsEnoughReturnAriseImpulseEroticActs Of Love Author:Nancy Mairs
“I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.” NeedsFeelsHappensTeachingReturnPureMy FavoriteConnectedAriseStillnessFavorite Places Author:Eckhart Tolle
“The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.” KnowsMenSoulFallKnownSourceReturnTasteDisasterSensesAriseYearningTheologianGod ImageNature Of Man Book:The Knowledge of the Holy Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.” HumansActionSilenceFireViolenceLandReturnHeroHistoricalAncientMythAriseWheelsSpiteTragicFlawsEpicBlindnessRevealingRenewalVoyagesHuman ActionsAncient WisdomNew WordsTragic Flaw Author:Carlos Fuentes
“I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people I honor and respect; return home at day break with my brain in a state which was never intended for it; and arise in the middle of the next day feeling infinitely more, in spirit and flesh like a Liliputian, than a woman with body and soul. Entry (when she was eighteen) in her Commonplace Book, 1868-1869.” PeopleMenBookSoulStatesFeelingsHomeBodySpiritLyingNextBrainBreakFeetMiddleTalentReturnHonorGainsFleshAriseDespiseNext DayCommonplaceEighteenEntryHonor And Respect Book:A Kate Chopin miscellany Source: A Kate Chopin miscellany