Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
VoltaireTags: consciousness knowledge infinity thought meditation awareness finite
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
VoltaireInjustice in the end produces independence.
VoltaireTags: injustice suffering independence cause-and-effect
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
VoltaireTags: thinking injustice thoughts speaking
What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us and hug him close to our bosoms tillhe has gnawed into our hearts?
VoltaireTags: living-life
when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.
Voltairehad no need of a guide to learn ignorance
VoltaireMartin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
VoltaireTags: life meaning misery boredom
A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.
VoltaireTags: happiness
He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.
VoltaireTags: prayer
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