Phenomenon Quotes - Page 15

• If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

  Rajneesh

  Ego, Special, Misery

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• The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful, it suddenly transforms the whole world. The whole world becomes beautiful because the world reflects you, it is a mirror.

  Rajneesh

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mirrors

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• Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation. Yes, it can be - and often is - abused, in business as in all arenas of endeavor. But it can also be used to do great good for great numbers. And as a career-building tool, the slow and steady (and subtle) amassing of power is the surest road to success.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Power, Numbers

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.43, Vintage

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• Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Spiritual, Business, Intellectual

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

  Alexander Lowen

  Faith, Animal, Psychics

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• Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

  Doug Larson

  Family, Responsibility, Unity

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• Fortunately, both governments have been in favor of studying the Mexican migration problem in greater depth. For the first time, I think, we will have something scientifically sound that says something about this phenomenon. The study is ongoing, and I hope that, with a push from both of us, it will provide a sound basis for serious public discussion on the migration issue.

  Ernesto Zedillo

  Thinking, Government, Issues

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• There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Health, Men

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• There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

  Stanislav Grof

  Powerful, People, Chance

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• The first fundamental law of the universe is the law of three forces, of three principles, or , as it is often called, the law of three. According to this law every action, every phenomenon in all worlds without exception, is the result of a simultaneous action of three forces- the positive, the negative, and the neutralizing.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Law, Principles, Negative

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• If attachment is the conditioning factor, then non-attachment will become the unconditioning factor. If expectation leads you in misery, then non-expectation will lead you into non-misery. If anger creates a hell within you, then compassion will create a heaven. So whatsoever the process of misery, the reverse will be the process of happiness. Unconditioning means you have to understand the whole knotted phenomenon of human consciousness as it is.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Compassion, Attachment

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• Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love knows no full stop; the honeymoon begins but never ends. It is not like a novel that starts at a certain point and ends at a certain point. It is an ongoing phenomenon. Lovers end, love continues. It is a continuum. It is a verb, not a noun.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Mean, Love Is

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• Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The self is not a thing, it is an event, it is a process. Never think in terms of things, the self is not there inside you just like a thing waiting in your room. The self is a process: changing, moving, arriving at new altitudes, moving into new planes, going deeper into new depths. Each moment much work is going on and the only way to encounter this self is to encounter it in relationship.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Moving, Thinking

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• The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and the approach towards principles, the Personal God approaching the Impersonal, the personal man approaching the Impersonal Man.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Personality, Principles

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.87, editionNEXT.com

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• Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Issues, People, Decision

  "Frances Moore Lappé : Diet for a Small Planet". Interview with Steve Keull and Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

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• It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

  A. N. Wilson

  Thinking, Opposites, History

  A. N. Wilson (2015). “After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World”, p.194, Macmillan

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• Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Judgement, Soldier

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.144

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• Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

  Vernon Howard

  Mean, Animal, Civilization

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• Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Lying, Heart, Eye

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• The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.

  James Agate

  Mad, Events, World

  James Agate (1940). “Ego 4: yet more of the autobiography of James Agate”

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• Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

  Heinrich Heine

  Miracle, Matter, Spirit

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• By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

  Claudia Roth

  Queens, White, House

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• Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

  Josef Albers

  Heart, Painting, Curious

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• We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy my films and the fact that I can include you in them as well. Cinema is only a small part of a much greater phenomenon. We transcend the barriers of culture. DVDs' image quality and longevity provide us with new prospects. They are a powerful medium. I think they were invented especially for me.

  Peter Greenaway

  Powerful, Moving, Technology

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• We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.

  Peter Greenaway

  Sight, Perspective, Suffering

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