Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence.
to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.
When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.
William Blake says the body is 'that portion of soul discerned by the five senses
Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the...
Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.
Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about...
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
There is nothing more stimulating to the senses than that of a female body freshly emerged from a steaming hot shower, bathed in oils and feminine scents... well nothing except maybe a freshly opened...
Things as they appear every day and as they are engraved in our memory, facts and occurrences as they are perceived by senses, create an intricate labyrinth in the mind. The way how things are experie...
Love is the poetry of the senses.
As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development.
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
The fifth sense is "common sense"- either you have it or you don't.
Deceptions of the senses are the truths of perception.
It is true that our everyday view of the world is not quite naively realistic, but that is what it would like to be. Common-sense is naively realistic wherever it does not think that there is some pos...
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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