Obscurations Quotes

#1. All things are void. So how possibly could there be any obscurations since everything is void, when you're void itself? There's only the void. In the void, there's only shining, perfect clear light of reality.

Frederick Lenz

#2. The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Bhagavan - in Tibetan, "One who has destroyed the four Maras,"2 which are death, distraction, pride, and the emotional obscurations. The

Dalai Lama XIV

#4. Nothing to be proud of, nothing to regret.

Rawi Hage

#5. Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you don't, you tend to lose.

Frederick Lenz

#6. You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

William James

#7. For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

David Grubbs

#8. When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.

Pablo Picasso

#9. I've used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn't have time to go shopping or pick up an outfit for a photo shoot. I think you should dress yourself, have fun with it - it's only clothes.

Imelda May

#10. Amazed Death could only watch this miracle unfold.

Michael Brookes

#11. Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

George Santayana

#12. So quiet ... it's like ... all the sounds in the world ... have been stopped ... only you scent ... in the deepest part of my heart ... echoing ...

Yuu Watase

#13. When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they're going to marry, when they're going to die. It's strange to feel so omniscient.

Claire Tomalin

#14. A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

Luc De Clapiers