Driessen Lecture Quotes

#1. Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

Eckhart Tolle

#2. She narrowed her eyes and concentrated on his mouth. Name. He wanted her name. She had to think about it for a second before she remembered. Great. She must have hit her head. Which, duh, explained the headache.

Larissa Ione

#3. When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.

Friedrich Schiller

#4. The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

Janet Fitch

#5. If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America ... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

Ernestine Rose

#6. What is the use of knowing everything, if you never actually practise it? They are forever cooking and never eating

Anne Perry

#7. The brain can think, but the heart knows better. So follow your instincts, follow your inner feelings.

Debasish Mridha

#8. I'm a bashful individual, though I can't get anyone to believe it ...

Louisa May Alcott

#9. Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically, to produce works that stand alone and exist as photographic paintings ...

Jean-Francois Chevrier