Quotes about ancient

Aniruddha Sastikar -

Rising Sun jostles hard to evaporate doom filled cloudshovering ancient land.

Cristina M. Sburlea - In Roman Times: Empires and Madness

It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together, and the vastness of the known and the unknown were somehow easier to comprehend.

Wade Davis - The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most importent challenge of our times.

James C. Dobson - Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

If we conform our behavior to God’s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we defy its imperatives, then death is the inevitable consequence. AIDS is only one avenue by which sickness and death befall those who play Russian roulette with God’s eternal moral law.

Virchand Gandhi -

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

Shri Purohit Swami - Bhagavad Gita: Annotated & Explained

Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like the Sun, beyond the reach of darkness.

Simona Panova - Nightmarish Sacrifice

The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions.

T.L. Parker - The Devil's Graveyards

Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.

Eve Glicksman -

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

Scott Hastie -

The smiles of ancient soulsThat bless this,Our space to live and learnAnd urge us on to shine again…

Mary E. Pearson - The Kiss of Deception

Ancients pulled metals more precious than gold from the center of the earth - They spun into giant lacy wings that flew them to the stars and back "Is that what you'd do with wings?"She shook her head "No, I'd fly to the stars, but I'd never come back

Ronald Wright - A Short History of Progress

Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun. Such thinking robs our forerunners of their due, and us of their experience. Because then one can believe whatever one likes about the past - without having to confront the bones, potsherds, and inscriptions which tell us that people all over the world, time and again, have made similar

Sadghuru -

I am neither modern nor ancient - just contemporary, as every Guru was. If one is not relevant for today, what is the point?

Frank Wilczek -

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.

Mike Bond - Killing Maine

Wind blew snow crystals back and forth between the graves. The ancient pines creaked overhead.

Robin Jarvis - The Oaken Throne

The moles came bearing their lamps and then the most ancient and magical creature that ever danced beneath the moon was lost in darkness once more.

Plutarch -

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

Lao Tzu -

Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you.

Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Ancient miracles are technological wonders.

Peter Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life

The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to develop the conditions of possibility of a perfected 'society'. This provided the required setting for the aggressive social theology of the Modern Age to drive out the political theology of the imperial eras. What was the Enlightenment in its deep structure if not an attempt to translate the ancient rhyme on learning and suffering - mathein pathein - into a collective and species-wide phenomenon

James C. Dobson - Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

If we conform our behavior to God’s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we defy its imperatives, then death is the inevitable consequence. AIDS is only one avenue by which sickness and death befall those who play Russian roulette with God’s eternal moral law.

Petronius Arbiter - The Satyricon

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?

Stephen M. Irwin - The Dead Path

But a smell shivered him awake.It was a scent as old as the world. It was a hundred aromas of a thousand places. It was the tang of pine needles. It was the musk of sex. It was the muscular rot of mushrooms. It was the spice of oak. Meaty and redolent of soil and bark and herb. It was bats and husks and burrows and moss. It was solid and alive - so alive! And it was close.The vapors invaded Nicholas' nostrils and his hair rose to their roots. His eyes were as heavy as manhole covers, but he open

Nishi Singh - The Pearl of Immortality

Forget not the Sacred Sands...The grains that pass through Time’s ancient hands!

Brian Andreas - Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind

That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the skyAnd there was a long moment as we listened and fell silent in our griefand then one by one, we stood talland came togetherand began to sing of life and love and all that is good and trueAnd I will never forget that day when the ancient songs died because there was no one in the world to sing them.

Ana Claudia Antunes - ACross Tic

Pay to go inside Neruda's homeA body lies there with no dome.But right there in the front hallLean a fairy against the icy wall.Oh Endless enigmas had the bard!Nice and large and calm backyardEnds In the middle of a rare roomRare portrait of revelishing gloom.Up climbing at the weird snail stairDoes make you grasp for some air.And there's a room with bric-a-brac:Old and precious books all in a pack.Dare saying what I liked most of all?Enjoyed seeing visitors having a ball!

Joseph P. Kauffman - and Spiritual Freedom

The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As you look at these words, you see them in what appears to be a reality outside of you. What you are really seeing is the image that your mind is creating from the electrical signals being sent to your brain. While they may appear to be outside of you, this is an illusion, they exist within your own mind, and are being projected to appear as if they are outside of you. This apparent reality that is pr

Joseph P. Kauffman - and Spiritual Freedom

God is the ultimate ground of Being, and this ultimate ground of Being is YOU. For one who realizes their true nature as God, as Consciousness, life becomes a joy without end.

Joseph P. Kauffman - and Spiritual Freedom

Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything in the dream was really you? Well this is how many mystics describe the nature of our reality, as a dream in which we think we are individual personalities existing in the physical universe. But eventually, like in all dreams, we will wake up. Except in this dream we do not wake up to realize we are still in the world, we awake from the world to realize that we are God.

Joseph P. Kauffman - and Spiritual Freedom

All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as Phi—known as the Golden Ratio or Golden Mean—was used in the constructions of their sculptures and architecture.

Joseph P. Kauffman - and Spiritual Freedom

In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly referred to as maya, a Sanskrit name which refers to the apparent, or objective reality which is superimposed on the ultimate reality in order to generate the phenomena of what we call the material world. Maya is the magic by which we create duality—by which we create two worlds from one. This creation is an illusory creation—it is not real—it is an imaginary manifestat

C. JoyBell C. -

If you follow the ancient maps written on the stars, no person will ever understand you. So if you could read these maps, would you follow them? And forever be misunderstood? Or would you close your eyes tightly and pretend to be like everyone else?

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

The universe contains many planets which make it what it is – a unified system. In addition, our bodies contain many organs, and each part is congruent to a planet in our solar system. The universe we see out our eyes is a mirror of what is within us. This is what God meant by making man in his image. We are all made as a reflection of God and that reflection of him is within us. Furthermore, not only are all religions connected to the same Truth, or Cosmic Heart, but this concept is also mirror

Toba Beta -

People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can't wait to see their faces at time the truth is revealed.

Ovid - Metamorphoses

Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies.

Confucius -

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Harsha Yardi - Ashtavakra Gita: The Ultimate Solace

What is this power of words? In our everyday routine, we use words to carry out all our transactions. If someone praises us then we get happy and if someone criticizes us then we get annoyed. If we take a closer look at this phenomenon then we will easily understand that when somebody is praising us or calling us names, that time no material comes and hits us. All that happens is, we just get to hear the sound of the words uttered by the other person. When that sound reaches our ears, our mind s

C. JoyBell C. -

For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wi

Elizabeth Cary - The Tragedy of Mariam

Move thy tongue,For silence is a sign of discontent.

Ntozake Shange - for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysicaldilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the pointmy spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my facemy love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face my love is too saturday nite to have th

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

A JEWELRY STORE NAMED INDIAIf you hold this Dazzling emeraldUp to the sky,It will shine a billion Beautiful miraclesPainted from the tearsOf the Most High.Plucked from the lush gardensOf a yellowish-green paradise,Look inside this hypnotic gemAnd a kaleidoscope of Titillating, Soul-raising Sights and colorsWill tease and seduceYour eyes and mind.Tell me, sir.Have you ever heardA peacock sing?Hold your earTo this mystical stoneAnd you will hearSacred hymns flowingTo the vibrationsOf the perfumedW

Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Fear is the ghost of ancient.It consumes faithless human.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.

W.E.B. Du Bois -

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.

Henry A. Giroux - Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning

For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced

The Bhagavad Gita -

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.

Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

General..behold the future of weaponry.""What the hell I am seeing here, Colonel?""It's..technologart of ancient weaponry, Sir!""It's..what?

Simona Panova - Nightmarish Sacrifice

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

N.K. Sandars - The Epic of Gilgamesh

Whether or not the fame of Gilgamesh of Uruk had reached the Aegean – and the idea is attractive – there can be no doubt that it was as great as that of any other hero. In time his name became so much a household word that jokes and forgeries were fathered onto it, as in a popular fraud that survives on eighth-century B.C. tablets which perhaps themselves copy an older text. This is a letter supposed to be written by Gilgamesh to some other king, with commands that he should send improbable quan

Steven Weinberg -

There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try to damp down the conflict, that we should compromise it. … I respect their views and I understand their motives, and I don't condemn them, but I'm not having it. To me, the conflict between science and religion is more important than these issues of science education or even environmentalism. I think the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief; an

James Christensen -

Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination

Roman Payne -

Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness.For our family, ourselves, and friends,It is but sad Decay, so,Let every girl die after her Hebé (Ἥβη).And every man after his Aristeia(ἀριστεία).

Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim

There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alone that sometimes he forgot--he forgot. The lighthad destroyed the assurance which had inspired him in the distantshadows.

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Monsters and the Critics and other essays

For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he expended his art in making keen that touch upon the heart which sorrows have that are both poignant and remote.

Bai Juyi -

On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life,We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight worldThat we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree."Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.

Ancient Chinese Proverb -

Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.

Dejan Stojanovic -

If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets.

Ikkyu -

I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines.

Ana Claudia Antunes - Memoirs of An Amazon

I'd rather have a heart of goldThan all the treasure of the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

We travel to ancient times by reading history books.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

There exist continuation of time; past, present and future.

Mahendra Jakhar - The Butcher of Benares

Policemen are often confronted with situations which baffle them at first. A certain crime scene may seem meaningless, but they have to derive some meaning out of it. They have to connect the dots, find the links, delve into its history, look for evidence, come up with a zillion theories and arrive at truth. The thing is, truth is always stranger than fiction.

Paracelsus -

There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition.

Michael Finkel - The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper. When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated--the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altog

Langston Hughes -

I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Tony Hendra - Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul

It was a music of the spirit, seeking peace, not emotional release, expressing the hunger of the soul rather than the heart. A way of sequencing notes so ancient it might be music's mother lode, its Fertile Crescent. It wouldn't have grated, I felt, on the ears of ancient Greeks or Egyptians or Mesopotamians or Sumerians—or even on the august auditory equipment of the Buddha or Lao-tzu.

Toba Beta - Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial.Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves.

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