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Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.
Rumi / Poet
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Light
Moments
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Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.
Rebecca Solnit / Writer
Ineffable
Protect
Walkers
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
Abraham Joshua Heschel / Rabbi
Company
Ineffable
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Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.
Paul Feyerabend / Philosopher
Entity
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Reality
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If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.
Jo Walton / Writer
Damn
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Omnipotence
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
W. Somerset Maugham / Playwright
Atheism
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Mystic
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There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Artist
Art
Ineffable
Two
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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Alexis Carrel / Surgeon
Religion
Men
Ineffable
Inner Strength
Light
Spiritual
Brings
Inner
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Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.
Mahatma Gandhi / Civil Rights Leader
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Joy
Suffering
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War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
Thomas De Quincey / Essayist
Men
War
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prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.
Madeleine L'engle / Writer
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Trying
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That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream.
James Lapine /
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard / Writer
Forgiveness
Happiness
Ecstasy
Envy
Forgiven
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Joy
Spiritual
Arouse
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Go ahead. Weep for the rare, the never seen this way again, the excruciating, ineffable, unmitigated beauty of love.
Mary Anne Radmacher / Author
Love
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Way
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As a professional climber, that's the question you always get: Why, why, why? It's an ineffable thing; you can't describe it.
Jimmy Chin / Climber
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Describe
Professional
Question
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
Maggie Rowe /
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Pointing
Describe
Texts
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Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.
Jacques Barzun / Historian
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Silence
Spirit
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With somebody like Harrison Ford, they're so commanding and confident, and you know, he does have a certain power or charisma, and those are things that are sort of ineffable.
Paul Dano / Actor
Charisma
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Confident
Commanding
Ford
Harrison Ford
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Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.
Susan Orlean / Journalist
Quality
Charisma
Form
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There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.
Steven Soderbergh / Film Producer
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Sadness
Thinking
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People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.
Anita Brookner / Novelist
Complacent
Depressing
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I Am Me People
Always Me I Am
Maddening
People Say
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent / Writer
Burial
Extraordinary
Iceland
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Landscape
Ongoing
Particular
Constantly
Qualities
Rites
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The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word."
Coleman Barks / Poet
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Silence
Talking
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
Sri Aurobindo / Philosopher
Eternity
Ineffable
Mind
Present Life
Saws
Sri Lanka
Above
Life God Mind
Beyond
Saw
Present
Myriad
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I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.
David Ogilvy / Businessman
Ideas
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Used
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In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.
Ben Marcus / Author
Certain
Contemplation
Elusive
Forever
Ineffable
Judaism
Meant To Be
Passion
Profound
Tiny
Track
Sure
Meant
Comprehend
Minds
Possibly
Strains
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From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.
Lucy Larcom / Poet
Baby
Clutch
Eye
Fingers
Heavenly
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Light
Opening
Reaching
Die
Attracts
Blending
Comprehend
Earthly
Eyes
Fully
Shall
Sunbeam
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Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain's chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits.
Eliot Schrefer /
Anguish
Benefits
Chemistry
Helplessness
Ineffable
Loss
Reactions
Roots
Temporary
Opposite
Adjust
Hidden
In The End
Loved One
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