The Senses Quotes
Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.
You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.
Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.
The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.
...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.
Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.
The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.
Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Perfume opens endless horizons. It appeals both to the senses and to the imagination. Like an enchantment, it works on an instinctive level and at the same time is extremely subtle.
The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.
Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid, more real, more substantial, and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.
With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.
I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
Her expression falls slightly as she senses that my walls are up and she's not nearly strong enough to climb over. Not even today when she is leukaemia's version of Superwoman.
Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.
Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin
Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.
Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.
... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?
The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.
The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.
Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.