Senses Quotes - Page 32

• It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.

  John Updike

  Enemy

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.138, Random House

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• From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving.

  Luke Davies

  Art, Adventure, Long Ago

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• We become in part what our senses take in.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Eknath Easwaran (2000). “A More Ardent Fire”, p.227, Nilgiri Press

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• The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Soul, Five Senses, Ministers

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.335, GENERAL PRESS

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• To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Passion, Forgiving, Unshakable

  Eknath Easwaran (2016). “Passage Meditation – A Complete Spiritual Practice: Train Your Mind and Find a Life that Fulfills”, p.125, Nilgiri Press

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• Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Looks, Body

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

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• I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to Society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is - I am out of my senses. In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Morning, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.395, Penguin

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• Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

  John Henry Newman

  Needs, Fickle, Decay

  John Henry Newman (1868). “Works”, p.326

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• A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

  Antonin Artaud

  Real, Calm, Kind

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• Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

  Democritus

  Mind, Victory, Want

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• Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.

  Maria Montessori

  Lying, Appreciate, Harmony

  Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.179, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Driving a hot car is a lot like sex to me, or a lot like I keep thinking sex should be: A total body experience, overwhelming, to all the senses, taking you places you've never been, packing a punch that leaves you breathless and touches your soul. The Viper was way more satisfying then my last boyfriend.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sex, Thinking, Car

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.86, Delacorte Press

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• When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

  Jasper Johns

  Alive, Treats, Awake

  Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”

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• If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate...not following the thought stream...not pursuing the senses, no imagination...s uch an intense Self-focusing comes without any effort...then, by itself...out of nowhere, wisdom and insights come.

  Mooji

  Mean, Self, Imagination

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• Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.

  Dan Millman

  Each Day, World, Body

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• The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.

  C. S. Lewis

  Tired, Space, May

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and soul, and kept all the powers of her soul and her bodily senses far above any defilement. This she did authoritatively, steadfastly, decisively and altogether inviolably at all times, as a closed gate preserves the treasure within, and a sealed book keeps hidden from sight what is written inside. The Scriptures say of her, 'This is the sealed book' (cf. Rev. 5:1-6:1; Dan. 12:4) and 'this gate shall be shut, and no man shall enter by it' (Ezek. 44:2).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Book, Men

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• The light of the Lord's transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even though for a short time on the narrow mountain top it was seen by human eyes.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Eye, Light

  "The homilies".

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• When a man receives something Divine, in his heart he rejoices; but when he receives something diabolic, he is disturbed. The Christian heart, when it has received something Divine, does not demand anything else in order to convince it that this is precisely from the Lord; but by that very effect it is convinced that this is heavenly, for it senses within itself spiritual fruits: love, joy, peace, and the rest (cf. Gal. 5:22).

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Spiritual, Heart

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• ... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance of the intellect. Through this surveillance we prescribe what is fitting for every faculty of the soul and every member of the body. For the senses we prescribe what they should take into account and to what extent they should do so, and this exercise of the spiritual law is called self-control.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Exercise

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• In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to heal, and that the divine activity should issue forth even from the hem of His garment. For God is not perceptible by the senses, to be enclosed within a body. The assumption of a body did not limit the nature of His power; but for our redemption His power took upon it the frailty of our body.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Christian, Dwelling, Issues

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• One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Hygiene, Wet

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• Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all of it. He moves well, using his senses fully. He is not preoccupied with irrelevancies. He's not thinking about his job or his image or his income tax. He is putting first things first, principally his physical security. Do likewise.

  Jeff Cooper

  Jobs, Moving, Cat

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.14, Paladin Press

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• If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an immense delusion; half the human race has been cheated and deceived, and churches are monuments of folly. If the Bible is the Word of God and inspired, all who refuse to believe it are in fearful danger; they are living on the brink of eternal misery. No man, in his sober senses, can fail to see that the whole subject demands most serious attention.

  J. C. Ryle

  Believe, Men, Race

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• This world, this universe which our senses feel, or our mind thinks, is but one atom, so to say, of the Infinite, projected on to the plane of consciousness; and within that narrow limit, defined by the network of consciousness, works our reason, and not beyond. Therefore, there must be some other instrument to take us beyond, and that instrument is called inspiration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.66, editionNEXT.com

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