Separation Quotes - Page 22

• The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Chinese, Taoism

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• When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.

  Zhuangzi

  Circles, Taoism, Spirituality

  Zhuangzi (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage Books USA

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• I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

  Isabel Allende

  Strength, Strong, Loss

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• It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church.

  Jon Meacham

  Religious, Wall, Political

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• Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man whose parliamentary skills uniquely qualify him to restrain Obama's executive overreach. So, Kentucky's Senate contest is a constitutional moment that will determine whether the separation of powers will be reasserted by a Congress revitalized by restoration of the Senate's dignity.

  George Will

  Men, Kentucky, Skills

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• Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One of the saddest and most pathetic of farm practices - inevitable at the present time for the supply of dairy produce - is the separation of the calf from the cow at birth or soon after.

  Ruth Harrison

  Mother, Animal, Practice

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• When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Inspiration, Practice

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• Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible. That we're told we'll violate the constitutional separation of church and state established by the Founding Fathers and the First Amendment. The First Amendment was not written to protect people and their laws from religious values. It was written to protect those values from government tyranny.

  Ronald Reagan

  Religious, Father, Believe

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• As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months. How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Home, Years

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• What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent-fabulously more coherent-when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world. . . . . . . but showing that, of course, was a very big job. . . .

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Jobs, Reality, Quality

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?

  Marilyn Frye

  Degrees, Form, Exciting

  Marilyn Frye (1983). “The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory”, Crossing Press, Incorporated

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• I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Together, Might, Advantage

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.4, David M Gross

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• One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Force, Again And Again, Repeats

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• Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes above described? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes?

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Rays, Different

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• There is no separation between us and God-we are divine expressions of the creative principle...there can be no real lack or scarcity; there is nothing we have to try to achieve or attract; we contain the potential for everything within us.

  Shakti Gawain

  God, Real, Expression

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• When fear dissolves, you no longer separate yourself from this single flow of immense force. Love is continuity with infinite life force, a Oneness of being with no separation. Love is the key to opening to this flow of life force.

  David Deida

  Love Is, Keys, Oneness

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• People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than the other. But it doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. And many of us who still believe in gender separation say, 'Vive la difference!

  Mike Huckabee

  Believe, Mean, Differences

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• Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

  Malcolm X

  Two, Done, Segregation

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• Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heartbreak, Children, Betrayal

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?

  Kabir

  Love, Laughing, Suffering

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• Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.

  Hafez

  Soul, Hardest

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• Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Death, Disappointment, Mean

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• Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fate, Exercise, Men

  The Rambler, No 85, January 8, 1751.

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• When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Cognition, Awareness, States

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• The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

  James Howard Kunstler

  Distance, Cities, Two

  James Howard Kunstler (1994). “Geography Of Nowhere: The Rise And Declineof America'S Man-Made Landscape”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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