Subtle Quotes - Page 4

• There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.

  John de Ruiter

  Perception, Depth, Obviousness

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• We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of each other's arms, and the larger circle of lovers whose hands are joined in a dance, and the larger circle of all creatures, passing in and out of life, who move also in a dance, to a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it except in fragments.

  Wendell Berry

  Moving, Hands, Circles

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.10, Counterpoint Press

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• Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Distance, Ocean, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1794, Manonmani Publishers

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• Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Decree, Speculation

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.580

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• The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Work, Teaching

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.66

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• The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.

  Paul Davies

  Believe, Design, Temptation

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• The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Body, Divinity

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Associations are both subtle and powerful.

  Jim Rohn

  Powerful, Association

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• If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.

  Michelangelo

  Country, Nurse, Atmosphere

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• Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no extraordinary, dramatic change, to persevere with calm and patience. How important it is to be skillful and gentle with ourselves, without becoming disheartened or giving up, but trusting the spiritual path and knowing that it has its own laws and its own dynamics.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Teaching

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jul 03, 2015

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• It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature.... This conquering of the inner man, understanding the secrets of the subtle workings that are within the human mind, and knowing its wonderful secrets, belong entirely to religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Knowing, Understanding

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

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• I don’t work as a conceptualist. Let’s say the conceptual art model is that you have a project idea, or a set of concerns, and then you illustrate those concerns in whatever manner you see appropriate. For me, it has always been that the world suggests far more subtle and interesting variations than I could ever come up with.

  John Gossage

  Art, Ideas, Interesting

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• When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.

  Norman Reedus

  Opportunity, Tree, Example

  "Q&A – Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It's such fun watching those transformations.

  David Walliams

  Fun, Hard Work, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have to admit that one of the saddest things I see in ministry is a woman who belittles her husband. Even if he has indeed failed in some way, his wife’s disparaging words compound the disaster exponentially. Her cynicism is utterly emasculating, and many times, incredibly subtle. Like a fine, thin blade, it slices deep, penetrating to the very core of his masculine soul.

  Stu Weber

  Husband, Wife, Soul

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• Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one...etc., etc. It's easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.

  Douglas Adams

  Being Yourself, Atheist, Believe

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• Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.

  Anne Hollander

  Lying, Clothes, Pressure

  Anne Hollander (1993). “Seeing Through Clothes”, p.355, Univ of California Press

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• Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poetry, Odes, Causes

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Walter Jackson Bate (1984). “Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Light, Fog, Details

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

  Laozi

  Teaching, Pathways, Virtue

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• My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.

  Emily Watson

  Character, Simple, People

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• Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full of tricks, I was obliged to call up all my forces to lay hold of him, and make the subtle Being my prisoner.

  Christian Friedrich Schonbein

  Strong, Hero, Science

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• The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other's world without prejudice...a complex, demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.

  Carl Rogers

  Strong, Moving, Mean

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• If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Thinking, Red

  'Brahma' (1867)

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• Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness — becomes more sensitive but less sensuous, becomes more prayerful and less sexual. And your body also starts taking on a different vibe. You become more graceful, softer, more feminine, less aggressive, more receptive.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Vegetarianism, Space

  "From R to Z".

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