Meaning Quotes - Page 10

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning - human meaning, that is - is defined by them. You have to admit that.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.

If I am going to be drowned - if I am going to be drowned - if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.

Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane - John Coltrane that is - he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’ Do you hear the melody playing in your mind? Does it move you, nudge you off your seat?

The spiritual journey is an adventure of exploration that gradually starts to open up before us when we are ready to begin asking the questions, “Who am I? and “Who are you?

The great mission of our day is not conquering the sea or space, disease or tyranny. The grand quest which calls to the hero in every one of us is to become fully alive-to stand up and claim our birthright, which is inner freedom, love and radiant purpose. By fulfilling this, we transform the world.

The inner encounters I have with animals - and will be teaching you to have - are exchanges of meaning.

Perspective seasons meaning with sprinkles of time.

Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.

I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts, physical conditions, one's mental state, the ecology, and so on.

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

examination of its own history and of the forms of thought given the name “philosophy” indicates that “philosophy” has itself borne many fundamentally different meanings through the years, and from one school or movement to another.

Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.

This is the greatest mystery of the human mind-the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irrelevancies relate, dissonance becomes harmony, and nonsense wears a crown of meaning. But the clarifying leap springs from the rich soil of confusion, and the leaper is not unfamiliar with pain.

Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life.