Dissolution Quotes

• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

  Voltaire

  Yoga, Thinking, Meditation Practice

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• To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Taken, World, Politics

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

  Sivananda

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Mind

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• Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.

  James Salter

  Events, Needs, Invitations

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• You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Laughter, Philosophical

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.572, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

  William Robertson Smith

  Religion, Deities, Nations

  William Robertson Smith (2006). “The Old Testament in the Jewish Church: Twelve Lectures on Biblical Criticism”, p.272, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

  Johan Huizinga

  Looks, Strange Times, Reason

  "In the Shadow of Tomorrow". Book by Johan Huizinga, Ch. 11, 1936.

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• Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

  William Julius Wilson

  Work, Organization, Levels

  "When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor". Book by William Julius Wilson, 1996.

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• The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may they continue to be so. For Anarchy is a thing without order; and the Rule of Many is factious, and thus anarchical, and thus disorderly. For both these tend to the same thing, namely disorder; and this to dissolution, for disorder is the first step to dissolution. But Monarchy is what we hold in honor.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Sports, Children, Order

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• Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Commitment, Consistency, Feelings

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• We have in fact entered upon the final phase..., the darkest period of this dark age, the state of dissolution from which there is to be no emerging except through a cataclysm, since it is no longer a mere revival which is required, but a complete renovation.

  Rene Guenon

  Dark, Growth, Age

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• Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Men, Anxiety

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Soul, Expansion

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and
  businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Yield, Years

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man. A happy man really cannot have the ego, because a person becomes happy only when there is no ego. The more egoless, the more happy; the more happy, the more egoless. You dissolve into happiness. You cannot exist together with happiness; you exist only when there is misery. In happiness there is dissolution.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Men, Ego

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• True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.

  R. D. Laing

  Reality, Self, Ego

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• Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

  John Donne

  Hair, Heaven, Soul

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Funeral'

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• He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must immediately have the most tragical conclusion, and most terminate in destruction to the greater number, and in a total dissolution of society to the rest.

  David Hume

  Stupid, Order, Numbers

  David Hume (2013). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation rather than of simple faith, and is accordingly nowhere expressly taught in Holy Scripture

  James H. Cone

  Philosophical, Simple, Soul

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• The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.

  Ian Gardner

  Life, Soul, Purpose

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• Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Body, Contemplating

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• The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.

  Karl Marx

  War, Atmosphere, Tests

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• A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

  William Graham Sumner

  Aggravation, Gutters, Decline

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.114, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• "Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Blue, Perspective

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sight, America, People

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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