Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.
A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.
Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.
The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
. . . a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
I played teen roles until high definition came out.
The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.
It can be the level of sexual assault is relatively low. What was described on the plane by Ms. Leeds, it would very likely satisfy that definition. She said that he reached under her skirt and fondled and groped her. That type of thing would satisfy the definition for sexual assault.
If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?
My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.
I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.
The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.
One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct. ' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
NatureStructure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these are not simplifications. I can't verbalize what I am working on: to me, it is many-layered by definition; it is what is more important, what is more true.