Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superiour to all private passions.
Wordsmiths who serve established power. . . castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.
Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
But I think there is a widespread opinion that the support system for athletes should be more firmly established.
Some day there will have to be some new rules established about name-calling. I don't mean the routine cursing that goes on between husband and wife, but the naming of defenseless, unsuspecting babies.
I am afraid,. . . that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.
During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read people whose work is in the same vein as yours and those whose genre is totally different. You've heard of chain-smokers. Writers, especially beginners, need to be chain-readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night.
God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.
The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.
The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific reasons to doubt the facticity of evolution, would be propagating a plain untruth.
These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time. " Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail. " "I was referring to the Bible. " Faukman cringed. "I knew that.
I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute.
Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.