“God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.” SoulSpiritualFoundSpaceSecretParticularMaterialsConversationDirectEssenceSupremeEncountersTouchedConstraintsSupreme Being Author:Avicenna
“Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.” FeelsImportantBodyLyingSecretArmsEssenceYour BodyRadicalDeep Inside Author:Tatsumi Hijikata
“I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.” MenBelieveHeartMatterWomenSecretExistenceVirtueEssenceWelcomeModestySkepticismVeilsDecencySkepticalOld WomanSuperficialityProfundity Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.” SelfWantedLawReligionWomenSecretHappenedBirthDignityEssenceAddAccidentsAcceptedChosenSymbolsDistinctionMeaninglessBrotherhoodJudaismHoodStigmaYokeInitiationKosher Author:Jessie Sampter
“If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago. The purpose of science is to peel back the layer of the appearance of the objects to reveal their underlying nature. In fact, if appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science.” IfsNeedsYearsFactsWould BePurposeUniverseCommonSecretObjectsYears AgoEssenceNotionAppearanceCommon SenseLayers Author:Michio Kaku
“I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself."” ThinkingTwoSometimesWholeChristianSpiritualLife IsRealizingSecretSuccessfulPositionEssenceAbsolutesTwo ThingsSpiritual LifeConfidence In GodNo Confidence Book:Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings Source: Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings
“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.” MenHeartHandsEyeSufferingDiesSecretMysteryCrimeHorrorBedDespairConscienceEssenceAccountsBurdenHeavyGravesThrownOld ManThroatPermitNow And ThenAlas Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe