top of page
.png){kind=small}
"There is a very delicate line between pornography and beauty. A naked woman is not necessarily pornographic; a naked man is not necessarily pornographic. A beautiful man, a beautiful woman, naked, can be examples of beauty, of health, of proportion. They are the most glorious products of nature. If a deer can be naked and beautiful-and nobody thinks the deer is pornographic-then why should it be that a naked man or woman cannot be just seen as beautiful?"
Standard
Customized
More
"A goatee is to beards what diamonds are to ornaments."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A slight deviation form what we would think of as symmetry gives us a bit more information and the mind seems to enjoy this stimulation because it is always looking for value. Beauty is a slight deviation from expectation."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Beauty is subjective. You know how sometimes what makes a person attractive is the way they make you laugh or how it seems like they can read your mind?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In an animal's or a plant's expression of imagination (let's leave out the rest for now, so we don't have to deal with the question of consciousness in, for example, minerals), there is always purity in the connection between need and evolution. That which is created is a response to reality and very specific, essential concerns. This then is the origin of the union between what is so and mysterious harmony-truth and beauty. The bridge between them is inspired intuition and the actions it causes. Or, imagination causes inspiration causes intuition causes beauty, which then causes imagination again."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Black and white, oldest of the vintages, newest of the last season."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don't let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good."
Renewal
"Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life."
Awareness
"Don't follow the crowd; create your own path."
Individuality
"Don't take life too seriously - learn to laugh at yourself."
Laughter
"There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available."
Mindfulness
"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
Silence
"Stop seeking security. There is none."
Security
"Real meditation means: don't avoid the inner madhouse; enter into it, face it, encounter it, be watchful, because it is through watchfulness that you will overcome it."
Meditation
"Enlightenment is nothing but waking up from the illusions of your mind."
Enlightenment
"If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled."
Enlightenment
bottom of page