Top Prostration Quotes
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1. "Let my idle chatter be the muttering of prayer, my every manual movement the execution of ritual gesture, my walking a ceremonial circumambulation, my eating and other acts the rite of sacrifice, my lying down prostration in worship, my every pleasure enjoyed with dedication of myself, let whatever activity is mine be some form of worship of you."
Author: Adi Shankaracarya
Author: Adi Shankaracarya
2. "Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse."
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
3. "Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan tantric Buddhism they do one hundred thousand prostrations to overcome pride. In Islam, prostration has been known to overcome many diseases."
Author: Eve Ensler
Author: Eve Ensler
4. "I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations."
Author: G.K. Chesterton
Author: G.K. Chesterton
5. "I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed."
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Author: Gustave Flaubert
6. "There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration"
Author: Lewis Carroll
Author: Lewis Carroll
7. "He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign himself to a keener pain, a more intolerable and utter prostration."
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
8. "It is man´s faith to live either on agonies of fear and turmoil or in the prostration of boredom."
Author: Voltaire
Author: Voltaire
9. "Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men."
Author: Wyndham Lewis
Author: Wyndham Lewis
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