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Quotes About Source

Control is a way to get started at something new but eventually it always fails. True success comes where control ends and we step out into thin air. Correk was explaining to you the same thing I am right now. If you don't gain an understanding of how to trust the source of energy from within you, from within the ground you stand on then you will try to control it, limit it.
~ Unknown
What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.
~ Martin Heidegger
Always verify quotations!
~ Unknown
The Gospel teaches from what source you receive the power to fulfill the Law.
~ Martin Luther
By mistreating the source of all logic we can enforce shortcuts.
~ Unknown
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
~ Anais Nin
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
~ Unknown
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Love is like the sun: has its inner energy source that shines on you
~ Unknown
from the paper that had helped start the fire.
~ Unknown
In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be closer to the source of things than trade or manufacturing, and the farmer was said to be "the cupbearer of the gods." He was always able to get by somehow or other and have enough to eat.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
What I discovered during my studies in Poe's and other early Americans' texts was the intellectual source of racial Whiteness. Here, in these pages, was the very fossil record of how this odd and illogical sickness formed. Here was the twisted mythic underpinnings of modern racial thought that could never before be dismantled because we were standing on them.
~ Mat Johnson
Silence abides. Nobody talks. Nobody can talk. No man knows his own mind. Fear prises the body and soul apart as neatly as a scallop knife – pop! He is no longer in control of himself. Someone or something else commands him: the war itself. He runs in expectation of death – any second, any second now – and then his soul will hang around like so much chaff until a stiff breeze disperses it and he will return to the source.
~ Matthew De Abaitua
Recognize suffering, Eliminate its source, End it By practicing the path.
~ Matthieu Ricard
In every sphere of human activity there are sources of inspiration whose perfection, far from discouraging us, in fact whets our enthusiasm by holding out an admirable vision of that to which we aspire.
~ Matthieu Ricard
What resists phenomenology within us -- natural being, the 'barbarous' source that Schelling spoke of -- cannot remain outside phenomenology and should have its place within it.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
~ May Sarton
Where'd you find her? He picked me out of a catalog.
~ Megan Hart
When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.
~ Meher Baba
Words derive their power from the original word.
~ Meister Eckhart
Information, as narrowly defined by Shannon, concerns the predictability of a message source. In the real world, however, information is something that is analyzed for meaning, that is remembered and combined with other information, and that produces results or actions. In short, information is processed via computation.
~ Unknown
Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.
~ Melanie Rawn
If, even in such a time of grace, a Jew is not moved to the tears of repentance, there is an imperfection in his soul. Nothing wakes it to return to its source. It has moved far indeed from its destiny.
~ Unknown
the principle of prior appropriation, which held that water belonged to whoever first put it to use, regardless of the user's proximity to the source, and that the priority remained in force as long as the use continued. The rule of prior appropriation, in its simplest formulation, was "first in time, first in right.
~ Unknown