Primal Quotes

• Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.

  Masiela Lusha

  Longing, Understood, Bounds

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• When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

  Chris Pine

  Want Something, Emotion, Enough

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• Close your mouth,
  block off your senses,
  blunt your sharpness,
  untie your knots,
  soften your glare,
  settle your dust.
  This is the primal identity.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Tao Te Ching

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• There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Two, Way

  FaceBook post by Christopher McDougall from Jul 13, 2011

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• Although we seem to be separate individuals, in reality we are all expressions of one primal imagination. We assume we are many, but in fact we are one. And what we do to each other we do to ourselves.

  Timothy Freke

  Wisdom, Reality, Expression

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• I think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self.

  Vin Diesel

  Thinking, Self, Relate

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• By death the moon was gathered in Long ago, ah long ago;
  Yet still the silver corpse must spin
  And with another's light must glow.
  Her frozen mountains must forget
  Their primal hot volcanic breath,
  Doomed to revolve for ages yet,
  Void amphitheatres of death.
  And all about the cosmic sky,
  The black that lies beyond our blue,
  Dead stars innumerable lie,
  And stars of red and angry hue
  Not dead but doomed to die.

  Julian Huxley

  Death, Stars, Lying

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• The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.

  William Osler

  Sex, Passion, Men

  'Science and Immortality' (1904) ch. 2

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• Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

  Walt Whitman

  Giving, Solitude, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Howard Nelson (2010). “Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman”, p.81, North Atlantic Books

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• The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

  Edward Bellamy

  Democracy, Principles, Dignity

  Edward Bellamy (2016). “Equality: American literature”, p.23, VM eBooks

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• Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?

  Barbara Holland

  Dog, Thinking, Sun

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• Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Love Is, Blood

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• It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

  Danica McKellar

  Names, Guy, Done

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• ~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~

  Angie Harmon

  Dream, Children, Kids

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• When we pause to think, we are compelled to admit the existence of consciousness as the primal and surest fact. What we know of the great world around is known through our states of consciousness, and if we seem to be living a merely objective life, amidst external things, it is because we have become oblivious of the real nature of experience.

  Horatio Dresser

  Real, Thinking, World

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• That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him or on the seer, the Self, there is a mental vibration 'I' to which all are reduced. Tracing the source of 'I', the primal 'I-I' alone remains over, and it is inexpressible. The seat of Realisation is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart. The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise it. There is nothing else to do.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Self, Purpose

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• Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

  Laozi

  Dust, Earth, Unions

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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• Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

  Laozi

  Giving, Credit, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one.

  Ramakrishna

  Jesus, Truth Is, Krishna

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• If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable.
  One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state.
  If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts,
  will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Struggle, Fighting, Thinking

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

  Dean Ornish

  Air, Water, Needs

  "Shining a Light in the Darkness" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2012.

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• Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Emotion

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• We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Civilization, Impulse

  James Ramsey Ullman (1951). “River of the Sun”

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• I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Integrity, Thinking, Perception

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• Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

  Steven Pressfield

  Believe, Ambition, Unique

  Steven Pressfield (2012). “Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work”, p.9, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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