“The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.” MindStatesEyeFormSoundSeeingMovementCapacityEarsHearingTongueNosesManifestationFlavorLimitlessTastingOdor Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.” HeartSoundBrainMusicWiseSweetMy HeartCapacityDelightOrganizedCharmRaptureHeart And BrainSweet Music Book:Journal of Discourses Source: Journal of Discourses
“One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not.” PeopleMayReasonWholeEnergyGivenSoundProveCapacitySexualityArguingNuclearEcstasyInaccessibleScruplesNuclear EnergyAmenable Author:Susan Sontag
“Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.” IfsKnowsMenMeanLongRunningPoliticalLyingCausesSoundTroubleCapitalismCapacitySalvationThreatFinancialCommunismLong RunsConvenienceInactionOrderlyDisturbance Book:The great crash, 1929 Source: The great crash, 1929