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The Discovery
«We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| About:
Buddhism,
Meditation,
Zen
| Keywords:
aiming, almost all, arrive, arrived, arrive at, composition, dance floor, fastest, floor, immediate, meditation, obviously, players, The Discovery, unlike
«The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.»
«The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.»
Author: Hugh Walpole, Sr.
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist)
| About:
Love,
Relationships
| Keywords:
depth, Discovery of, glowing, human relationship, increase, progressiveness, The Discovery
«The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike»
Author: Jacob Bronkowski
| About:
Discovery,
Science
| Keywords:
seemed, The Discovery, unity, unlike
«The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
God,
Self-knowledge,
Truth
| Keywords:
discovery, Discovery of, error, finding, first step, The Discovery
«This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
burglar, burglary, Discovery of, The Discovery
«The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usu»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
assumption, cured, Discovery of, exposure, identical, The Discovery
«To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own, and it is the discovery of ourselves outside us which makes us glad. This relation of understanding is partial, but the relation of love is complete. In love the sense of difference»
«The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
cast away, consumed, esteemed, grosser, pit, reform, saint, The Discovery, The Saint, the Terror
«The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Change,
Generations,
Revolution
| Keywords:
aspects, attitudes, outer, revolution, The Discovery
