Essentials Quotes - Page 27

• The literal meaning of "yoga" is "union," "integration," "reconnection." But in the context of practice, yoga is a way of gaining access to your own inner luminosity and becoming established in your essential self.

  Rajmani Tigunait

  Yoga, Self, Practice

  "The Secret of the Yoga Sutra: A Q&A with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait". SYF Interview, sedonayogafestival.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Humility is essential to the acquiring of spiritual knowledge. To be humble is to be teachable. Humility permits you to be tutored by the Spirit and to be taught from sources inspired by the Lord, such as the scriptures. The seeds of personal growth and understanding germinate and flourish in the fertile soil of humility. Their fruit is spiritual knowledge to guide you here and hereafter.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Humble, Humility

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• I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.

  Marion Dudley Cran

  Flower, Heart, Fate

  Marion Dudley Cran (1913). “The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden”

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• Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are missing the most essential part of our own human lives.

  Harold Taylor

  People, Giving, Missing

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• It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon framing hypotheses with the greatest possible freedom from dogmatic prejudice. And if these were the really important things in life, physics would be an essential study for everybody.

  Anthony Standen

  Life, Freedom, Science

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• To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love - all were bound up with the garden and its products, especially flowers. Few Oriental nations can think of a festival without flowers, but nowhere are they so completely a part of human life, and so essential, as in [Ancient] Egypt.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Life, Nature, Flower

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• Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium."

  Whitney Otto

  Successful, Men, Personality

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• Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

  Patanjali

  Yoga, Silence, Mind

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• The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Discipline, Choices, Intellectual

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• Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

  Thomas McEvilley

  Plato, Eye, Soul

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• Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses its concerns towards global issues and does not approach its own specific problems on the basis of, to some extend, self-induced fear.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mistake, Self, America

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• True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually governed by a desire to know, and a disposition to fulfill his will, and in endeavoring under the influence of these motives to 'live to his glory.' Where these essential requisites are wanting, however amiable the character may be, however creditable and respectable among men, yet, as it possesses not the grand distinguishing essence, it must not be complimented with the name of Christianity.

  William Wilberforce

  Character, Heart, Men

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion is not to go to God by forsaking the world but to find Him in it. Our faith is to believe in our essential oneness with Him. "God is in us and we in Him" must be made the most fundamental faith of all religions.

  Soyen Shaku

  Believe, Oneness, Fundamentals

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• Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student - and not a good one - and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.

  John Irving

  Philosophical, Wrestling, Athlete

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May 1997.

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• It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and she's his moral compass.

  Marisa Tomei

  Fun, Aunt, May

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Aunt May's values and Spiderman's traumas are kind of what's defined him as a young boy and now that he's becoming a young man, she's there to provide that safe place where he can still be a kid if he needs to be, or know that he has a home base as he's going through all these physical changes. So as long as those essentials are there, we can work on finding the character together.

  Marisa Tomei

  Character, Kids, Home

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this experience, you have to really go back to the fundamentals.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Teaching, People

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives of your subject.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Strong, Ideas, Portraiture

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who is an original and captures something essential.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, People, Luther

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• It is essential that America's word be good.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Be Good

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• It is essential that America's word be good. And so I know that this campaign has caused some questioning and worries on the part of many leaders across the globe. I've talked with a number of them. But I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Numbers, America

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• In terms of what is the solution is going forward, in my view, it is the grassroots human-rights groups - both Israeli and Palestinian - that are doing exactly what needs to be done, which is building trust, developing relationships and building that sense of common community which is essential if we're going to figure out how to move forward.

  Jill Stein

  Moving, Rights, Views

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.

  Justin Adams

  Source

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.

  Hillary Clinton

  New York, Wall, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.

  Jonathon Keats

  Art, Practice, Research

  Source: therumpus.net

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