Quotes About Meaning

If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.

words differently each time he told it; he was skilled enough as a storyteller that the arrangement of words didn't matter. It was different for Moseby, who never acted anything out when he gave his sermons; for him, the words were what was important. Jijingi realized that Moseby wrote down his sermons not because his memory was terrible but because he was looking for a specific arrangement of words. Once he found the one he wanted, he could hold on to it for as long as he needed.

he knows he has a reward map but has never thought about what it would mean to edit it. "Might be fun editing my reward map," says Polo. "You not able edit your reward map when you working for someone else," says Marco. "You only able do that when you corporation.

As all things are reflections of God, so are all names reflections of the divine name." "And what is an object's true name?" "That name which reflects the divine name in the same manner as the object reflects God." "And what is the action of a true name?" "To endow its object with a reflection of divine power.

He hadn't been cursed or blessed in any obvious way, and he didn't know what message he was intended to receive.

But what if that's not true? What if"—his voice cracked—"what if God had no intentions about us at all?

You could not find the places where words began and ended by listening. The sounds a person made while speaking were as smooth and unbroken as the hide of a goat's leg, but the words were like the bones underneath the meat, and the space between them was the joint where you'd cut if you wanted to separate it into pieces. By leaving spaces when he wrote, Moseby was making visible the bones in what he said.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

For those who would make art, the basic proposition is crystal clear: finding the work you are meant to do is the central challenge of artmaking — and making that work is the central challenge of life.

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant, I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.

Pir Sain was a symbol of munafiqat. I was a soldier. This was a jehad.

I don't want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I'm not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.

But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.

One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.

Conversations with sisters can spark extremes of anger or extremes of love. Everything said between sisters carries meaning not only from what was just said but from all the conversations that came before - and 'before' can span a lifetime. The layers of meaning combine profound connection with equally profound competition.

If I can inspire one spark of awareness or get a spark of introspection or reflection about someone else's life, that's a beautiful thing, in my opinion.

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.

Dullness is more than a religious issue, it is a cultural issue. Our entire culture has become dull. Dullness is the absence of the light of our souls. Look around. We have lost the sparkle in our eyes, the passion in our marriages, the meaning in our work, the joy of our faith.

I work a lot on words, so if I hear a word or see a word or a phrase or a sentence that someone says to me it just immediately sparks a concept.

Icons speak icon language.

It's possible of course, especially when you're young, to read a book and take it to your heart. And you don't need to speak to anybody about it - it's so important to you: You have found it.

As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if neither the speaker nor the audience can articulate what that meaning might be.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.