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“Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.”

Men Earth Imagination Moral Tree Bears Roots Instinct Fruit Intellect Branches True Nature Trunks Moral Life

Author:Felix Adler

“Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.”

Literature Differences Notion Gender True Nature

Author:Andrew Cohen

“Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.”

Universe Lays Ruins Conspiracy Weary True Nature Inviting Trough

Author:Martha Beck

“What should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way. The unknown, uncharted path through this wild new world that allows you---yourself, in your uniqueness--to reclaim the full measure of your true nature.”

World Way Should Path New World New Ways Uniqueness Better Ways True Nature Uncharted

Book:Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want

Source: Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want

“To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.”

Knows Self Social Pressure True Self True Nature Social Pressure

Author:Martha Beck

“The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.”

May Truth Names Conditions Bears Weight Ignorant Substance True Nature Often Is Stratagem

Book:The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic

Source: The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic

“The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred or elevating, and brought to a state of absolute emptiness, from which alone it may one day perceive its own true nature, or the nature of the universe.”

Mind May States Form Lying Universe Vision Objects One Day Absolutes Sacred Perceive Emptiness Uniqueness Bondage True Nature Elevating

Author:Philip Kapleau

“May you know the beauty of your own true nature.”

Knows May True Nature

Author:Jack Kornfield

“At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature. If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.”

Ifs Knows Littles Moments Simple Manifest True Nature Unconsciousness

Author:Adyashanti

“Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.”

“Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam.”

War Islam True Nature

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence.”

Existence Silence Eternal Essence Infinite True Nature

Author:Leonard Jacobson

“In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do.”

Reason Would Be Can Do Cases Expectations Resources Crisis Troops True Nature Exaggerated Analyzing Assessing

Author:Kofi Annan

“We begin to ask questions, such as: "What is the purpose of life? What is my true nature? What is the source and origin of this entire creation?" When questions of this kind arise in a person's mind, his or her quest for knowledge begins.”

Mind Kind Persons Purpose Asks Creation Source Arise Purpose Of Life Quests True Nature What Is The Purpose Of Life

Author:Tejomayananda

“No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.”

Knows Men Persons Perfect Imperfect True Nature

Author:Lokendra Singh

“This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom.”

Ifs Mind Self Certain Belief Causes Existence Trouble Divine Depends Finals Seeking Gods Will True Nature Divine Wisdom

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.”

Mind Humanity Fall Universe Enjoy Tree Mountain Rivers Grass Companion True Nature

Author:Matsuo Basho

“Consider the sunlight. You may say that it is near, yet if you pursue it from world to world you will never catch it. You may say it is far, yet it is right before your eyes. Chase it and it always eludes you; run from it and it is always there. From this example you can understand how it is with the true nature of things.”

Ifs World May Eye Running Example Pursue Sunlight True Nature Elude Elude You

Author:Huangbo Xiyun

“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?”

Humans Causes Goal Results Activity Opposites Realization True Nature Human Activity

Book:Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays

Source: Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays

“I often hear from new graduates that it's better to wait until you have more experience.... But I'm a big believer in the power of inexperience.... The world needs you before you stop asking naive questions and while you have the time to understand the true nature of the complex problems we face and take them on.”

World Needs Problem Bigs Faces Waiting Asking Complexes Believer Graduates Naive Need You True Nature Inexperience Complex Problems

Author:Wendy Kopp

“May I be at peace. May I awaken to the light of my own true nature. May I be healed and may I be the source of healing for others.”

May Light My Own Healing Source Healed True Nature

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.”

Knows Want Should Humans Term Letting Go Submit Fascination True Nature

Author:Hugh Jackman

“The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.”

Feels Joy True Nature Joy And Happiness

Author:Brian Weiss

“It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.”

Needs Heart Long Night Flower Seasons Rhythm Sunlight Respectful True Nature Open Heart Be Respectful

Author:Jack Kornfield

“A blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship in which both people involved remember and acknowledge their true nature and worth, and strengthen what is whole in one another.”

People Giving Kind Persons Whole Moments Remember Certain Involved Blessing Meetings Acknowledge True Nature That One Person

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.”

Should Firsts Children Done Natural Environment Development Needed Normal Red Bases Obstacles Remove True Nature Departure Flowering Natural Gifts

Author:Maria Montessori

“The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.”

Can Do True Nature

Book:Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening

Source: Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening

“What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things" (using the phrase without metaphysical pretensions), especially injustices and exploitative practices.”

States Might Understanding Practice Economy Injustice Phrases Capitalist Metaphysical True Nature Pretension Capitalist Economy

Author:Richard A. Falk

“Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice to discover our true nature, which is Love.”

Pain Belief Causes Practice Psychology Practicals Application Mistaken True Nature Identifying Contemplative

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“The core of who you are, your true nature, is Love.”

Who You Are Core True Nature

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Term Youth Calling Conflict Comfortable Discovery Suspense True Nature Thrillers Being Afraid

Author:Christopher Rice

“Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.”

Knows Body Jobs Spiritual Divine Expression Intention True Nature Spiritual Beings Individuation

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up. Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.”

Ifs Way Humans Hands Bigs Powerful Wonder Produce Shots Tools Ears Ill Boxes Various Debate Code What If Dna True Nature Cracked Biologist Pandora Chimera Pandora's Box

Author:Margaret Atwood

“When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature.”

Pure Contact True Nature Pure Love Initiation

Author:Michael Beckwith

“When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate, discerning wisdom then enters the equation in all of our relationships.”

Pure Judgment Disappear Contact Compassionate Our Relationship Equations True Nature Pure Love Initiation Discerning

Author:Michael Beckwith

“[T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions”

Problem Government Action Form Political Belief Religious Responsibility Moral Ethics Bases Assuming Conviction Deceiving True Nature Consulting Moral Responsibility Political Beliefs

Author:H. Verlan Andersen

“For Plotinus, what really exists are the Platonic forms, so the true nature or form of things like justice, beauty, maybe numbers, things like that, and these he associates with the intellect because they're the objects of intellect, they are things that intellect can think about.”

Thinking Form Justice Numbers Objects Intellect Associates True Nature Platonic

Author:Peter Adamson

“My test for veracity has always been: How this will settle with a person who is dying? Boundlessness seemed to me to open the door to the true nature of mind that is pointed to in the Heart Sutra.”

Mind Heart Persons Doors Dying Tests Settling True Nature Veracity

Author:Joan Halifax

“What I experienced with the bears where I discovered my true nature within myself, was not able to be discovered or experienced in this world in society.”

World Able This World Bears True Nature

Author:Timothy Treadwell

“Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.”

Ifs Way Humans Hands Powerful Wonder Tools Ill Various Debate What If True Nature Biologist

Author:Margaret Atwood

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

“Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.”

Ifs Way Humans Art Beautiful Spirit Wish Honest Art Is Obvious Human Spirit True Nature Not Honest

Author:Corin Nemec

“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.”

Way Creativity Destiny Creative Transformation Harmony Permanent Persevere Accord True Nature Creative Work Permanent Change Permanent Things

Author:Alexander Pope

“Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.”

Knows Wells Body Beautiful Remember Desire House Wish Sacred Womanhood Pledge True Nature My Wish True Womanhood

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.”

People World Persons Purpose Fun Nature Comedy Wit Revealing True Nature Humorists Satirist

Author:James Thurber

“Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.”

Men Kind States Religious Mankind Intellect Accidents Violent Permanent Abandon Sentiments Religious Faith True Nature Distortion Pious Unbelief Aberration

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.”

Evil True Nature Nature Of Evil

Book:Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.”

World Persons Fun Comedy Wit Sense Of Humor Revealing True Nature Humorists Satirist

Author:James Thurber

“All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying”

Years Running Shadow True Nature Catch Me

Author:Amy Tan

“I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.”

Knows Believe Enough Universe Distrust True Nature

Author:Pete Hautman

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