Quotes by Imagination I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade. But I was the oldest of nine, and that grounded me in a way that I don't think I would have been grounded otherwise. So I was able to - or forced to - function practically. But I think, by nature, I was someone who lived in my head, in my imagination. Susan Sarandon dollsimaginationthinking Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are. Susan Sontag pornographystructureimagination Through intense deep meditation you reach a state that is beyond thought, beyond change, beyond imagination, beyond differences and duality. Once you can stay in that state for a while and come out of it without losing any of it, then the inner divine love will begin to pour through you. You will not see people as different, separate individuals. You will see your own Self in everyone around you. Then the flow of love from within you will be constant and unbroken. Swami Muktananda differencesimaginationself There is no map that can show you how to leap. The map for this is somewhere in our own imagination. Swami Paramananda mapsawarenessimagination You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination Sydney, Lady Morgan good-friendimaginationmind When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere. Swami Vivekananda lightimaginationuse People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination Sydney Smith loyaltyimaginationpeople Form is burden. Sometimes being part of the system enslaves the mind and greatly limits the imagination by enslaving it to form. Form is a burden to the mind that sees no limits. Form is a prison for the soul who sees possibilities outside the lines and wishes to test them. Suzy Kassem soulimaginationmind Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true. Sydney J. Harris imagineimaginationworld What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. Sylvia Plath imaginationthinking Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology. Susan Sontag growingdiseaseimagination Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the religious imagination. To try to make a fresh way of talking at the most serious, ardent, and enthusiastic level, heading off the religious encapsulation, is one of the primary intellectual tasks of future thought. Susan Sontag imaginationreligioustalking When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl. T. S. Eliot frameworkimaginationideas I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. Tahereh Mafi imaginationcharacterfiction Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites. Taisen Deshimaru hypocrisyimaginationopposites A little imagination goes a long way in Fes. Tahir Shah imaginationlittleslong To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path Tahir Shah starsimaginationpath Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight. Tahir Shah imaginationwaitingtelevision Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit. Swami Vivekananda meditationimaginationmind Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even the quantum vacuum is not an inert void, but is boiling with quantum fluctuations. In our macroscopic world, we are used to energy conservation, but in the quantum realm this holds only on average. Energy fluctuations out of nothing create short-lived particle-antiparticle pairs, which is why the vacuum is not emptiness but a sea of transient particles. An uncaused beginning, even out of nothing, for spacetime is no great leap of the imagination. Taner Edis imaginationseaaverage«143144145146147148149150151152153»
