Awe Quotes - Page 28

• You don't need eyes to see, you need vision.

  Maxwell Frazer

  Eye, Vision, Needs

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• Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

  James Turrell

  Light, Vision, Revelations

  James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr

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• When they lose their sense of awe, people turn to religion. When they no longer trust themselves, they begin to depend upon authority. Therefore the Master steps back so that people won't be confused. He teaches without a teaching, so that people will have nothing to learn.

  Laozi

  Confused, Teaching, People

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• When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

  Ariel Durant

  Order, Knighthood, Chivalry

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• Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.

  Thomas Harris

  Slugs, Ants, Sun

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.217, Penguin

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• When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.

  George MacDonald

  God, Kindness, Lying

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• Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Space, Silence

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• Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Stupid, Vision, Seeing

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• I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. [...] There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Flower

  "What Do You Care What Other People Think?". Book by Richard P. Feynman, "The Making of a Scientist," p. 11, 1988.

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• The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Appreciation, Adventure, Past

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• I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.

  Pam Grier

  Children, Heart, Thinking

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• Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science, for example or in absolutist religious positions; or by locking ourselves into systems, whether corporate, familial, or consumerist; or by stupefying ourselves with drugs.

  Kirk J. Schneider

  Religious, People, Drug

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• The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

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  Ram Dass

  Art, Pain, Unbearable

  Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

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• My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm between our human knowledge and the awe-inspiring realm of God.

  Eben Alexander

  Journey, Dwelling Place, Almighty

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• Only when we try to love God will we see our utter inability to do so. And only when we understand that inability, will we begin to be in awe of His great love toward us.

  Mike Donehey

  Great Love, Trying, Inability

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• Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Names, Long, Shining

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• Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon moving me to the depths, touching my heart, and stirring up within my soul a yearning to give my all.

  Mary Webb

  Moving, Heart, Voice

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• Train yourself to be in awe of the subtle, and you will live in a world of beauty and ease.

  Rodney Yee

  Ease, World, Subtle

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• My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and -- of course -- heart. This is an extraordinary debut by a striking new voice in YA fiction that left me in awe and moved beyond measure. Not to be missed.

  Nova Ren Suma

  Honesty, Heart, Voice

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• Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

  August Strindberg

  Blessing, Vision, Sometimes

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.147, Univ of California Press

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• What you see is what you see.

  Frank Stella

  Cheer, Gossip Girl, Love Life

  Stephanie Rosenthal, Ad Reinhardt, Haus der Kunst München, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella (2006). “Black paintings”

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• Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.

  Wallace Stevens

  Flower, Rain, Dust

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.252, Vintage

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• Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art, Essence, Vision

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• The supreme application of human attention is to be a vessel to carry awe.

  Etsko Schuitema

  Attention, Application, Humans

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• I am more lost in wonder than ever.

  John Huston

  Wonder, Lost

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