Adhesiveness Quotes & Sayings

When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it by a term used by Sufi thinker Hakim Bey, as "temporary autonomous zones." That for me sums up some of Whitman's sense of a community of likeminded people with a certain kind of adhesiveness and connection and sharing of this ethos. — Anne Waldman

Religious leaders who continue mechanically to expound the Scriptures without regard to the current religious situation are no better than the scribes and lawyers of Jesus' day who faithfully parroted the Law without the remotest notion of what was going on around them spiritually," wrote Tozer. "They fed the same diet to all and seemed wholly unaware that there was such a thing as meat in due season. — A.W. Tozer

Thought
Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness;
As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly
affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who
do not believe in men. — Walt Whitman

I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in. — Anne Waldman

I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago. — Shelley Winters

I want it so bad, but no glove, no fucking love. — C.M. Stunich

Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now. — Stephen Mitchell

I announce adhesiveness-I say it shall be limitless, unloosen'd;
I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for. — Walt Whitman

The Lord healed all our wounds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People coming in from abroad. There was a sense of community around ideas: a discourse and an adhesiveness which is my favorite word from [Walt] Whitman. — Anne Waldman

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it. — Guy Finley

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul. — Amit Ray

It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man. — John Bartholomew Gough

Everything holds its breath except spring. She burts through as strong as ever. — B.M. Bower

The traditional arts and crafts are, in fact, "mysteries," with "secrets" that are not merely "tricks of the trade" of economic value (like the so-much-abused European "patents"), but pertain to the worldwide and immemorial symbolism of the techniques, all of which are analogies or imitations of the creative nature in operation — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy