Obstructs Quotes

#1. True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a high station morally, ethically, or spiritually.

Steven Pressfield

#3. Anything that threatens, hinders, obstructs, denies, delays your capacity to stand fully up for yourself, within yourself, take it down.

Iyanla Vanzant

#4. Trust allows. Not trusting obstructs.

Peter Santos

#5. The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.

Bruce Lee

#6. I pray the Lord to weaken today and remove tomorrow all that obstructs the soul's contemplation.

Guigo II The Carthusian

#7. Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

Bruce Lee

#8. The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

Hugh Prather

#9. Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

Ramana Maharshi

#10. It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! ... Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#11. You complain and demand zero compromise - so the GOP obstructs Obama so the economy doesn't improve - then you complain and demand even more zero compromise. Then you get to blame Obama for the slow recovery, which is sorta like John Wilkes Booth blaming Lincoln for missing the end of a play.

John Fugelsang

#12. The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

Francis Bacon

#13. The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are ...

Mark Nepo

#14. An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#15. Only humility will help us grow. The feeling of I and mine obstructs any possibility of inner growth.

Amma

#16. Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

Ramana Maharshi

#17. For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

Margaret Cavendish

#18. Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element ...

Kazimir Malevich

#19. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

Swami Vivekananda

#20. Hey, see if they've got any pie. Bring me some pie. I love me some pie.

Dean Winchester

#21. Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.

Adrian McKinty

#22. Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

Samuel Rogers

#23. If only I have the guts to tell; If only you have the heart to listen.

Noor Iskandar

#24. He could have anything in there," Gentry said, pausing to look down at the unconscious face. He spun on his heel and began his pacing again. "A world. Worlds. Any number of personality-constructs ...

William Gibson

#25. I would ask ... of my supporters to get away from the personality conflicts that media tries to bring forward and focus on the real issues impacting the American people. And when you do that, I think the choice is pretty clear and that is that Hillary Clinton is far and away the superior candidate.

Bernie Sanders