Piehler Range Quotes & Sayings

Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun. — Adi Shankara

Data don't generate theory - only researchers do that. — Henry Mintzberg

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God. — John Wesley

I remembered a line I read in the Dalai Lama's book A Profound Mind. "It is important that we understand just how truly all-pervasive suffering is." I remembered the Dalai Lama saying it is easy to feel sorry for an elderly beggar, but it is much harder to feel sorry for a young rich man. He also said that all "conditioned existence is characterized by pain." And that all types of people are "enslaved" by "strong destructive emotions. — Matthew Quick

This was a freedom essential to the health even of a character so little susceptible of morbid influences as that of Phoebe. The old house [with dry rot in its structure and perhaps also in its inhabitants]; ... it was not good to breathe no other atmosphere that that. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love is what the humans are all about but they don't understand it. If they understood it, then it would disappear. — Matt Haig

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is. — Danny Tyran

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area. — T. S. Eliot