Illness is a socially patterned behaviour, far more than people realize. How a person interprets and reacts to bodily changes depends... Personal and societal role modes create expectations of health... Our brains are wired through experience to respond in a certain way to certain provocation. The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
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Quote:- Illness is out of my dictionary when the soul yearns to do and achieve great things.
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Love
Quote:- Illness might progressively vanish so might identity. Grief might be diminished, but so might tenderness. Traumas might be erased but so might history. Infirmities might disappear, but so might vulnerability. Chance would become mitigated, but so, inevitably, would choice.
The Gene: An Intimate History
Author:- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Category:- science
Quote:- Illusion is the most tenacious weed in the collective consciousness; history teaches, but it has no pupils.
Author:- Antonio Gramsci
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Illusions build broken homes because they lack solid blueprints.
The Good Poet
Author:- K.D. Gates
Category:- best
Quote:- Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it?
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Author:- T.F. Hodge
Category:- best
Quote:- Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.
The Lost Princess of Oz
Author:- L. Frank Baum
Category:- science
Quote:- Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.
Author:- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
Freedom Evolves
Author:- Daniel C. Dennett
Category:- philosophy,science
Quote:- Imagination is not bound by possibilities. The creative mind will always break the shackles—making the impossible, possible.
Author:- C. Toni Graham
Category:- inspiration,motivational
Quote:- Imagination is not, as some poets have thought, simply synonymous with good. It may be either good or evil. As long as art remained primarily mimetic, the evil which imagination could do was limited by nature. Again, as long as it was treated as an amusement, the evil which it could do was limited in scope. But in an age when the connection between imagination and figuration is beginning to be dimly realized, when the fact of the directionally creator relation is beginning to break through into consciousness, both the good and the evil latent in the working of imagination begin to appear unlimited. We have seen in the Romantic movement an instance of the way in which the making of images may react upon the collective representations. It is a fairly rudimentary instance, but even so it has already gone beyond the dreams and responses of a leisured few. The economic and social structure of Switzerland is noticeably affected by its tourist industry, and that is due only in part to increased facilities of travel. It is due not less to the condition that (whatever may be said about their ‘particles’) the mountains which twentieth-century man sees are not the mountains which eighteenth-century man saw.It may be objected that this is a very small matter, and that it will be a long time before the imagination of man substantially alters those appearances of nature with which his figuration supplies him. But then I am taking the long view. Even so, we need not be too confident. Even if the pace of change remained the same, one who is really sensitive to (for example) the difference between the medieval collective representations and our own will be aware that, without traveling any greater distance than we have come since the fourteenth century, we could very well move forward into a chaotically empty or fantastically hideous world. But the pace of change has not remained the same. It has accelerated and is accelerating. We should remember this, when appraising the aberrations of the formally representational arts. Of course, in so far as these are due to affectation, they are of no importance. But in so far as they are genuine, they are genuine because the artist has in some way or other experienced the world he represents. And in so far as they are appreciated, they are appreciated by those who are themselves willing to make a move towards seeing the world in that way, and, ultimately therefore, seeing that kind of world. We should remember this, when we see pictures of a dog with six legs emerging from a vegetable marrow or a woman with a motorbicycle substituted for her left breast.
Author:- Owen Barfield
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale: Three Complete Books: The Power of Positive Thinking; The Positive Principle Today; Enthusiasm Makes the Difference
Author:- Norman Vincent Peale
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Imagination runs most surely over land that it knows.
The Craft of the Lead Pencil
Author:- Mervyn Peake
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Imagination, the real and eternal world of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow. What is the life of Man but Art and Science?
Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
Author:- William Blake
Category:- science
Quote:- Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.
Author:- Simon Soloveychik
Category:- hope
Quote:- Imagine a movie where the camera is shaking all the time. It would be the worst movie you've ever seen. You could barely focus on anything that's going on and you'd probably walk out in five minutes.Stillness is everything. It’s an opportunity to observe our chaotic mind and allow it to settle down no matter what else is happening around us.
Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
Author:- Todd Perelmuter
Category:- inspiration