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grasp
«I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.»
Author: Samuel Osgood
(Politician)
| About:
Character,
Connection,
Respect,
Sensations
| Keywords:
by hand, causes, cause of a, grasp, grasps, hand, handing, handing over, hand out, hand to hand, love, meets, meet up with, My own, of her own, on hand, on her own, out of hand, own, sensation, some, that, The Met, with
« I am saying something about the ineffable. I am saying something about the ultimate mystery. You can understand it, yet you can never understand it totally. It is elusive, it escapes. It is within reach, but it is not within grasp. You are always coming closer and closer to it, but you never arrive. And the day you arrive, then you are no more there; the distinction between the seeker and the sought disappears. Then you are it. That art thou -- then you are it! »
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
arrive, closer, coming, disappears, distinction, elusive, escapes, grasp, ineffable, mystery, seeker, sought, The Ultimate, thou, totally, ultimate
«It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
delusion, grasp, persist, persist in, reassure, reassured, reassures, reassuring, satisfying
«Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.»
«If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
cloister, cloistered, cloisters, grasp, laboratories, laboratory, subject matter, the University, twelve, university, walls
«I feel it now...there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world. I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it.»
«Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and featur»
Author: Viktor Frankl
| About:
Love,
Mankind,
Personality,
Self-love
| Keywords:
aware, core, enabled, grasp, innermost, personality, traits
«I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
apprehensible, ceasing, grasp, ordinarily, transformed
«Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
arrest, arresting, arrests, attend to, baffle, baffles, baffling, experiences, fled, flees, grasp, instant, melted, notice, occurs