Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and out of our minds as he wills.
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer
Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.
Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.
...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...
What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.
Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias.
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a for his actions.
To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.
A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".
Although he assumed she’d naturally submit to him, he obviously believed she was still her own person. A strong person.
Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.
The clocks understood, they kept moving, motion, following the truth that change is the nature of God's mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain.
By Real Acting I mean “an imitation of human behavior that is both emotionally natural and mechanically precise enough as to elicit tears or laughter from humans.
Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.
