Quotes About Oriental

Whether Jewish or Christian, our religions have stressed too strongly the strictly historical aspect, so that we are, so to say, in worship of the historical event, instead of being able to read through that event to the spiritual message for ourselves. People turn to Oriental religion because therein they find the real message which has been closed by excessive literalism and historicism in their own religion and which is now open to them

While the boy is talking, an army of ants parades across the floor. The boy laughs when he sees them, and Indra's hair stands on end, and he says to the boy, Why do you laugh? The boy answers. Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt. Indra says, I ask. Teach. (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

In traditional Oriental societies, pregnant women were carefully screened from viewing or hearing any unpleasant sights or sounds, especially those which arouse anger, fear, grief, or any other extreme emotional response, in order to prevent adrenaline, cortisone, and other hazardous biochemicals from being released and transferred to their developing foetuses via the bloodstream. This may have prevented mental, emotional, and physical abnormalities in their offspring.

Topographic conditions were the foundation of Greek democracy, just as those of a different kind gave rise to the Oriental despotisms of Egypt and elsewhere.

It was a large room with a gleaming expanse of parquet floor on which were dotted expensive oriental rugs. It was delicately panelled in pale wood and there were some enormous stuffed chairs upholstered in pale buff leather. Behind a colossal sycamore desk, the centre and focus of the room, sat Mr. Fortescue himself.

offer you a veritable Oriental paradise of unlimited raptures!" He

You don't have to be a psychic to sell oriental rugs. You only have to be a psychic to buy them.

Los chinos, por su parte, aman también el jade, pero es que quizás seamos los orientales los últimos que sentimos fascinación por estos pedruscos de aspecto extrañamente turbio, en los que parece que haya cuajado un aire viejo, de siglos, piedras que encierran en lo más profundo un brillo opaco, como estancado.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

Venice earned its wealth not only from rare Oriental goods, but also from the pilgrim and crusader traffic to and from the Holy Land.

In 1947, Kennan wrote, "The men of the Kremlin would suddenly discover that this fluid and subtle oriental movement which they thought they held in the palm of their hand had quietly oozed away between their fingers and there was nothing left there but a ceremonial Chinese bow and a polite giggle.

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss.

On a généralement, en Europe, une tendance à s'exagérer l'importance du Bouddhisme, qui est certainement de beaucoup la moins intéressante de toutes les doctrines orientales, mais qui, précisément parce qu'il constitue pour l'Orient une déviation et une anomalie, peut sembler plus accessible à la mentalité occidentale et moins éloigné des formes de pensée auxquelles elle est accoutumée.

Coming onstage for her first entrance, Diana felt transported to some ancient scene. They could have been any group of itinerant actors out making their way along the Silk Road, the famous Earth trade route that ran across the mountains and deserts and steppes of Asia, stopping in this medieval oriental city made glorious by its marble colonnades and gentle silk banners. Even

To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.

elevator door opened and people poured out. Bustling, well dressed, Oriental.

All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: 'Just lie down on the floor and keep calm.

Bohm has avoided speculating about this parallel between his math and ancient Oriental mysticism, but others have not. Dr. Capra in The Tao of Physics uses a Bohmian non-local model of quantum theory as the true model (ignoring the physicists who prefer EWG or Copenhagenism) and then points out, quite correctly, that (if we accept this as the only true quantum model) quantum theory says the same things Taoism has always said.

Like a stripped and lifeless trunk the Oriental church produces no theologians, thinkers, or savants.

To this day the Oriental Orthodox Church asserts that after the incarnation Jesus was "one united dynamic nature": "at once God and human . . ." Ultimately, a Divine mystery—a paradox.

To propose an agreement on principles does not involve or imply that the Western world should be Orientalized ; propaganda is out of the question as between gentlemen, and everyone must make use of the forms appropriate to his own psychophysical constitution. It is the European that wants to practice Yoga ; the Oriental points out that he has already contemplative disciplines of his own.

My flat is a bit like an oriental bazaar. It's filled with the oddest objects from all my travels, and you can't really move in it. I love collecting antiques and often spend weekends driving around bric-a-brac markets.