“When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.” LightMeditationSourceBuddhismPerfectionEternity Author:Frederick Lenz
“A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.” MindFirstsGodImagineSourceGoodnessDiscoveryPerfectionMercyGloriousConsiderationDependenceCheerfulnessImmensityAmiableGood Mind Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.” KnowsLooksHeartMaySoulVirtueSourceGloryPerfectionStoresReservesAstonishmentVeneration Author:Joseph Addison
“Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.” PerfectPleasureMoralMaterialsSourceTastePerfectionAttractivePurityFacultyReceivingOar Author:John Ruskin
“Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.)” CarTheorySourceHigherMoralityWorshipPerfectionAbsolutesSupremeDevoted Author:African Spir
“To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources.” PeopleWorldEndsMovingSpiritMankindSourceBearsBecomingHigherAnxietyAmbitionPerfectionMajorityPursuitTemperGrapesThornsCountenanceIgnobleGait Book:The Works of Walter Pater Source: The Works of Walter Pater