The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one’s breath.

Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.

I’ve known rivers:I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

If you follow the ancient maps written on the stars, no person will ever understand you. So if you could read these maps, would you follow them? And forever be misunderstood? Or would you close...

There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try to damp down the conflict, that we should compromise it. … I respect...

Yesterday is as ancient as a millennia ago, because both are forever out of reach.

I am neither modern nor ancient – just contemporary, as every Guru was. If one is not relevant for today, what is the point?

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

Auguste Comte, in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by moral more than by legal appliances) a despotism of society over the individual, surpassing anything...

General..behold the future of weaponry.””What the hell I am seeing here, Colonel?””It’s..technologart of ancient weaponry, Sir!””It’s..what?

When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.

But a smell shivered him awake.It was a scent as old as the world. It was a hundred aromas of a thousand places. It was the tang of pine needles. It was the musk of...

Whether or not the fame of Gilgamesh of Uruk had reached the Aegean – and the idea is attractive – there can be no doubt that it was as great as that of any other...

Rising Sun jostles hard to evaporate doom filled clouds;hovering ancient land.

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and...

For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would’ve thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets.

Ancient miracles are technological wonders.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun....

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the skyAnd there was a long moment as we listened and fell silent in our griefand then one by...

If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite – the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment – is a source of dismay....

Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination

The smiles of ancient soulsThat bless this,Our space to live and learnAnd urge us on to shine again…

Whoa, don’t assume, dude,” Marco said. “My mom always said, when you assume you make an ass of u and me–

The answer to the ancient question ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

Move thy tongue,For silence is a sign of discontent.

Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like the Sun, beyond the reach of darkness.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

As to the ancient historians, from Herodotus to Tacitus, we credit them as far as they relate things probable and credible, and no further: for if we do, we must believe the two miracles which...

The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods...

Just to be heading away from the sea, to be immersed in a beautiful landscape again, to hear the sound of crows, was such a welcome change, and all to be seen so very appealing,...

his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by the victors…Now, with the help of the Roman historian Tacitus, I shall tell you Queen Boudicca’s story,...

The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows.

If not now, when?” – Hillel The Pharisee

Can’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?

Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one’s enemies.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together, and the vastness of the known and the unknown were somehow easier to...

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One… I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.

Ancients pulled metals more precious than gold from the center of the earth – They spun into giant lacy wings that flew them to the stars and back “Is that what you’d do with wings?”She...

People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can’t wait to see...

On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life,We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight worldThat we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,And...

Fear is the ghost of ancient.It consumes faithless human.