Quotes of: Bewilderment Keyword

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

When one's mind dwells on the objects of Senses, fondness for them grows on him, from fondness comes desire, from desire anger. Anger leads to bewilderment, bewilderment to loss of memory of true Self, and by that intelligence is destroyed, and...

Srimad Bhagavad Gita

Which college?' 'Hmm?' 'Which college do you go to?' Fletcher nodded. 'Yes.' 'I'm sorry?' 'Oh,' Fletcher said, and laughed. Valkyrie's parents looked at Fletcher in near bewilderment. Fletcher looked back at them in total bewilderment. Valkyrie shook...

Mortal Coil

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman Dyson

Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.

The Boat in the Evening

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

James Thurber

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation; the pleasures of literature are the pleasures of bewilderment.

Life

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

I've never thought of my name at the top of the marquee in any particular terms other than, you know, slight bewilderment.

Bobby Keys

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Khalil Gibran

Total confusion, disconnected nothing, absolute bewilderment. It's an enigma wrapped in a mystery, stuffed in a burrito, and smothered in taco sauce.

Love

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.

Duop Chak Wuol

Honesty, vulnerability and a good amount of courageous faith allows you to cry out in your bewilderment and not lose your belief in the process. These things allow you to wrestle your faith rather than lose it.

Bono

When things happen, live them. When they end, move on. Accept and enjoy bewilderment in the flow.

Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls m...

Maurice

Once the troublesome mind "begins to compose speeches and dream up arguments, especially if these are clever, it will soon imagine it is doing important work." But if you can surpass those thoughts, Teresa explained, and ascend toward God, "it is a g...

Eat, Pray, Love

What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained life. What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register? I slept ...

Half a Life

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare i...

Noam Chomsky