Absolutes Quotes - Page 26

• The absolute awareness only comes when you become the Spirit. When you get your realization and you become the Spirit. When you are the Spirit, then what happens that you start feeling on your central nervous the centers of all the people who are around you and your own centers.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The absolute goal of vision for ministry is to glorify God.

  George Barna

  Goal, Vision, Ministry

  George Barna (2010). “The Power of Vision: Discover and Apply God's Plan for Your Life and Ministry (Large Print 16pt)”, p.36, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Progress, Decline

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.120

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• Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

  James Truslow Adams

  Mother Daughter, Stars, Teenage

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• Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Spiritual, Knowing, Passing

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• Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was, I am" (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul - I am That.)

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Mean, Self

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• Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Acceptance, Sacrifice, Sacrificing Everything

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• The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

  Joan Didion

  America, Secret, Desire

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• To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Judging, Religion, Firsts

  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy ch. 1 (1942)

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• Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Spiritual, Real, Life Is

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• [Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department existed. Today it is a commonplace in all the leading universities. Peirce stood alone-a mountain peak whose absolute height might be hard to measure, but which towered above all the surrounding country.

  Julian Coolidge

  Country, Science, Mountain Peaks

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• From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

  Walt Whitman

  Integrity, Listening To Others, Independence

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Philosophical, Thinking, Animal

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• At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.

  Thomas Merton

  God, Spiritual, Truth

  Thomas Merton (2012). “On Christian Contemplation”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions and political parties for the many good things they seek to achieve, I do not and cannot belong to any of these `isms,' religions or political parties, for the Absolute Truth, while equally including them, transcends all of them and leaves no room for separative divisions which are all equally false.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Party

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• There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't move. One could say that man sneaks through the crack where paradox exists.

  Itzhak Bentov

  Spiritual, Moving, Men

  Itzhak Bentov (2000). “A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: A Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation”, p.78, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.

  William J. Clinton

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Determination

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• To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by expressing in the world of forms- truth, love, purity and beauty - this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance.

  Meher Baba

  Inspirational, Essence, Games

  Meher Baba (2005). “Infinite Intelligence”

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• The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Wise, Attitude, Believe

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• That was the absolute worst catch phrase I've ever heard in the history of Monday Night Raw.

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Monday, Wrestling, Night

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• The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.

  Rudy Rucker

  God, Education, Math

  Rudy Rucker (2013). “Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is the foundation-stone of religion; and religion is the means by which the soul is purified of all that pollutes it. Prayer is the worship of the first cause of all things, the supreme ruler of all the world, the source of all strength. Prayer is the adoration of the one whose being is necessary.

  Avicenna

  Wisdom, Prayer, Islamic

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• In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Numbers, People, Energy

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• If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

  Nicholas Stern

  Science, Energy, Climate

  "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.

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• Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Moving, Tourism

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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