Great Throughts Treasury

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Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL

The subtle body (linga) is primeval, unconfined, constant, composed of the principles (tattvas) beginning with Intellect (mahat) and ending with the subtle elements (tanmatras). It transmigrates, free from experience, and is tinged with dispositions (bhavas).

Mother | Parents |

Padmasambhava, literally "Lotus-Born",aka "Second Buddha", better known as Guru Rinpoche (lit. "Precious Guru") or Lopon Rinpoche NULL

When you realize that samsara and nirvana are dharmakaya, you need not put effort into meditation practice.

Influence | Qualities | Will |

Eleanor Brown, fully Nora Eleanor Louisa Hervey Brown

The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.

Parents |

Elif Safak

Another base unit and being alone are two different things, when be lonely It's easy to fool yourself and think you you are going on the right path but being alone is better for us because it means you will be alone without feeling you are single , but in the end, it is best that you are looking for one person serve as a mirror for you to remember that you cannot really see yourself, but at the heart of another person and the existence of God P inside.

Creativity | Men | Mother | Parents | Passion |

Eli Pariser

The creativity and ingenuity that have driven the Internet have always relied on an open platform where the haves and have-nots get treated equally. This e-mail tax system is a big step toward dismantling that system.

Culture | Influence | Money |

Eleanor Brown, fully Nora Eleanor Louisa Hervey Brown

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

Conversation | Dreams | Feelings | Parents | Child | Old |

William Shakespeare

Revenge has ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision.

Parents | Wrong |

Ellen Goodman

If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?

Better | Parents |

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing.

Age | Children | Future | God | Parents | Rule | Will | God | Afraid |

Ellen Goodman

As for keeping the attack dogs from nibbling away your courage? My theory, after decades in this business, is that you only give a few people the right to make you feel rotten. You have a handful of chits to give out, penuriously, to those you trust and respect. You don't give them to just anyone with an e-mail address and an epithet.

Battle | Children | Opposition | Parents | Time |

Emil M. Cioran

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Parents |

Dorothy Parker

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

Birth | Ends | Experience | Heart | Men | Parents | Plan | Tenderness | Think |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

Children | Lord | Parents | Work | World |

Dorothy Parker

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

Change | Influence | Safe |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all, and sweetest in the gale is heard; and sore must be the storm that could abash the little bird that kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land and on the strangest sea; yet, never, in extremity, it asked a crumb of me.

Parents | World |

Emma Goldman

But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism? Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet, how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed? John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities? Freedom, expansion, opportunity, and, above all, peace and repose, alone can teach us the real dominant factors of human nature and all its wonderful possibilities. Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations. This is not a wild fancy or an aberration of the mind. It is the conclusion arrived at by hosts of intellectual men and women the world over; a conclusion resulting from the close and studious observation of the tendencies of modern society: individual liberty and economic equality, the twin forces for the birth of what is fine and true in man.

Atheism | Belief | Earth | Fighting | God | Individual | Influence | Man | Power | Rule | Servitude | Thought | God | Thought |

Emma Goldman

It takes less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Atheism | Fighting | Influence | Thought | Thought |

Emma Goldman

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Aims | Belief | Experience | Fallacy | Habit | Individual | Influence | Means |

Emma Goldman

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

Aims | Distinguish | History | Influence | Lesson | Man | Means | Philosophy | Power | Revolution | Tragedy |