Subtle Quotes - Page 32

• In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

  Donna Tartt

  Essentials, Way, Existence

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.8, Vintage

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• The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing it out to me, insisting I acknowledge its progress and sometimes, for just a moment I feel a flicker of hope before the agony of the night engulfs me again.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Moon, Night

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.442, Scholastic Inc.

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• . . . if you close your eyes and begin to feel your breath, it will instantly become deeper and slower, and your mind will become calmer. Then gradually you'll become aware of your body, or more precisely the subtle sense of energy inside and around your body. At that moment, you exist as Energy-Consciousness, not as names, jobs, duties, roles, desires, and so on.

  Ilchi Lee

  Jobs, Eye, Names

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• How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

  John Milton

  Time, Years, Wings

  'Sonnet' 7 'How soon hath time' (1645)

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• I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

  Graham Kerr

  Food, Dessert First, Perfect

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• The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Yield, Brave

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems”, p.42

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• It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

  Eric Hoffer

  Relationship, Money, People

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies".

  Noam Chomsky

  Truth, Independent, Issues

  "Language and Politics". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1988.

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• Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Respect, Business, Organization

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.126, Penguin

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• Sahaja Yoga is a very subtle happening within us. It's a very subtle happening. And this subtler happening gives you sensitivity to divine joy.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• This all-pervading power is the power of divine love. It thinks. It organizes. It plans. It loves. It is the one which is the subtle of the ether, you can call it. It is the subtle of the matter. It is the subtle of your emotions. It is the subtle of your mental power. It is the subtle of your evolutionary power, but all integrated and coordinated in complete synchronization.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Greatness, Erosion

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mean, Buddhism, Suffering

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• The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Law, Understanding, Cosmos

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• Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Thinking, Ego

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• Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.

  William Wordsworth

  Opportunity, Missing, Occasions

  William Wordsworth (1864). “The Select Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.392

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• Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Meditation, Mind

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (2016). “Words of Grace”, p.31, Sai ePublications

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• You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and also this void. In the story of the tenth man, when each of them counted and thought they were only nine, each one forgetting to count himself, there is a stage when they think one is missing and do not know who it is; and that corresponds to the void. We are so accustomed to the notion that all that we see around us is permanent and that we are this body, that when all this ceases to exist we imagine and fear that we also have ceased to exist.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Past, Men, Thinking

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• Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sports, Strong, Hockey

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated, Volume 13, Issue 26, pp. 14-17, December 26, 1960.

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• The Bauls say, "Don't try to force anything." Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the buds, waiting, never in a hurry, giving their time to them. The Bauls say, "Everything happens at its right time, everything happens in its own season. Wait, don't be impatient, don't be in a hurry. All hurry is greed, and all hurry is a subtle fight." That which is going to happen will happen. Whenever it is going to happen it will happen; you need not fight existence. You can surrender, you can trust.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Flower, Fighting

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• The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but this security is deathlike. It is the security of the plant inside the seed. The plant is afraid to sprout because - who knows? The world is so hazardous and the plant will be so soft, so fragile. Behind the wall of the seed, hiding inside the cell, everything is protected.

  Rajneesh

  Wall, Cells, Ego

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• Remember, character is not of much value. What is valuable is consciousness - not conscience but consciousness. Conscience is created by the society. The more foolish you are, the more the society is able to create a conscience in you. It gives you an idea how to live your life. It manipulates you in a very subtle way. It hypnotizes you and conditions you. And the conditioning is so long that you forget completely that these are not your ideas.

  Rajneesh

  Character, Ideas, Long

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• As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate compassion. Just by becoming aware of your cruelty, violence, ugliness... the very awareness brings new changes in you. And the energy that was involved in cruelty, in violence, starts changing. The same energy becomes purified, the same energy becomes compassion.

  Rajneesh

  Compassion, Energy, Violence

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• My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Two, Soul, Links

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.130, Zillmann Publishing

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• Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Country

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.94, Open Court Publishing

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