You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. read more
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.
A pot clashes with its lid
In someones hurried kitchen
A telephone boils off the hook.
Outside, a car door
read more
A pot clashes with its lid
In someones hurried kitchen
A telephone boils off the hook.
Outside, a car door
An airplane pulls a drag of cloud.
muffled thunder.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.
As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also read more
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.
Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil read more
Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil Williams.
