“Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.” ThinkingWorldLittlesEarthSpiritNightSpiritualityUniverseStarsPrayerSpaceWalksCitiesWonderMorningWorryFeetStreetsHumilityWalkingLateStressWake UpSilentBusyBreatheMilesAll TimeUpliftingTensionPoisonAweWakingLimitlessGoodwillPower Of GodEarly MorningExpanseTime Of DayCity StreetsSilent PrayerStress And Worry Author:Bill Vaughan
“The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.” SelfLastsSpiritTurnsStruggleConflictOppositesInstrumentsTensionConspiracyBowsManhoodTenseModernityPsychiatristJesuit Book:Closing of the American Mind Source: Closing of the American Mind
“The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?” KnowsMenHas BeensSoulFacesSpiritSufferingGrowthSecretGreatnessDisciplineEndureRuinsGrantedTensionMaskUnhappinessCunningFace To FaceInterpretingProfundityInventivenessEnhancement Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.” WorldDoeSpiritForceSocialAtheismWorshipModelsAppealsPermanentTensionDependentDistractionRhetoricSensibilityOrganizeRespectablePietyVariablesRevitalization Author:C. Wright Mills
“Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.” TwoActionSpiritNew YorkSensesParisTensionMagnetic Author:Anais Nin
“You can go to doctors until the last cow has been placed in its shed. You can journey the earth in search of peace of mind. You can experiment with a dozen theories, hoping for a relief from worries, or the problems which beset you, but unless you learn to relax you will end up disappointed. Tension is a killer! Just relax and note the immediate effect. One of peace and ease of mind. One in which every organ of the body joins. In relaxation there is unity of mind, body and spirit.” MindHas BeensEndsProblemBodyEarthLastsSpiritWorryJourneyEffectsTheoryDoctorsUnityNotesExperimentsEaseTensionReliefRelaxPeace Of MindDisappointedDozenCowsLeisureKillersOrgansShedRelaxationMind BodyMind Body And SpiritSearch Of Peace Author:George Matthew Adams