Quotes About Discovery

We cannot really understand another human being without understanding his dharma story. And we cannot understand his dharma story without grasping the importance of his dharma mentors. The more I dug into Keats, the more I discovered that one cannot understand Keats without understanding Shakespeare. Mark apparently discovered the same thing. His second major play would be about Shakespeare.

ambivalence, it turns out, is an unavoidable companion in the search for a new dharma):

That's when my analysis began. That's when Marion began what Carl Jung would call the "night sea journey." That's when Marion began pointing her sails into the wind of the unconscious, and made the journey into the parts of herself that had been exiled to the basement and the attic of her body and soul. With the help of her analyst, she made the irrevocable decision to accept whatever she found there.

In his late teens, and probably as a result of Neefe's coaching, Beethoven began to read widely and voraciously. This is when he began to frame his life as a quest to

In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer," wrote Albert Camus

As you walk through forests or the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fear Good friendships you may find

As you lay on a summer's day In a cool and shady place, Don't look up into the skies; Instead look down and squint your eyes. Squint your eyes so very tight, And if you wish with all your might, You'll find the land of More-Than-Small. In this land live buggs -- that's all!

Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by it's covered; for inside those tattered pages, there's a lot to be discovered.

A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost.

If he could not find beauty, nothing else would be worth finding.

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

It all happened," Lipton summed up, "because Shifty saw a tree almost a mile away that hadn't been there the day before.

The Enlightenment taught that observation unrecorded was knowledge lost.

According to Jung, a stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Often we... expect and want every day to be just like today. Even though we're not satisfied with today, we settle for security instead of discovery.

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.

Lewis finds the fourteen-foot aluminum ladder under boxes in the garage, Three Stooges in into the backyard...

What "Terra Nova" means, all the articles are proud to reveal, is "New World." What one of the incoming residents said, kind of famously, was that when there are no more frontiers, you have to make them yourself, don't you?

The Tao of Chaos will provide methods and approaches to embrace chaos and its sister, the void, as means to discovering a deeper sense of who we are without resistance.

But to his surprise, just before daylight, he found himself being aroused from a slumber he had not known he had achieved.

Ironically enough, it was Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, who first warned of bacterial resistance. He noted as early as 1929 in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology that numerous bacteria were already resistant to the drug he had discovered and by 1945 he warned in a New York Times interview that improper use of penicillin would inevitably lead to the development of resistant bacteria.

The fairly recent discovery that all of the water supplies in the industrialized countries are contaminated with minute amounts of antibiotics (from their excretion into water supplies) means that bacteria everywhere are experiencing low doses of antibiotics all the time. This exposure is exponentially driving resistance learning; the more antibiotics that go into the water, the faster the bacteria learn.

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