Quotes About Phenomena

Whatever is of the nature of arising, all that is of the nature of cessation.

The second secret: The second secret may actually be the often prophesized "Illumination of the Soul". Throughout the history of recorded apparitions, locutions, and other supernatural spiritual phenomena, there has been a consistent thread of prophecy that describes an interior "illumination" of the soul that will be experienced by every living human being at a designated time. It is also called the illumination of the conscience.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

As New Testament professor Craig Blomberg observes, "What most distinguishes the work [Misquoting Jesus] are the spins Ehrman puts on some of the data at numerous junctures and his propensity for focusing on the most drastic of all the changes in the history of the text, leaving the uninitiated likely to think there are numerous additional examples of various phenomena he discusses when there are not" (2006).

Insight meditation11 requires neither a blank mind, generating special imagery nor repeating a mantra, but trains the mind to dispassionately observe the phenomena constantly appearing on its luminous screen.

The Renaissance, like all genuine cultural phenomena, was not an effort to promote one or another vision. It was an effort to find visions that promised still more vision.

the words "problem" and "solution" as commonly used, belong to the analytic approach to phenomena, and not to the creative.

All phenomena are empty.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.

In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area, as opposed to the straight-ahead jazz thing - which is good for me, as that's one part of where I'm at. It's been so great playing these gigs and seeing kids come out and the whole college scene.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

Whatever its origin, I'd like to see a cure for the Incredibly Shrinking Actress phenomena.

I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. I'm an autobiographical writer in the sense that whether in fiction or nonfiction, the issues and relationships and phenomena and problems I'm most interested in exploring are the ones I've experienced personally.

I don't want to be one of those bosses... taking credit for phenomena that are out of my control.

Fear is a phenomena that each one of us faces, in different ways.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

Fear of nothingness is fear of a certain physicality, a physicality whose phenomena I cannot predictably demarcate from its reality in advance.