Epiphany – Page 7

I played music practically

I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That’s where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity Ray Manzarek

Rather than getting more

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound. Alain de Botton

One night I was

One night I was on my [Navy] ship… on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to the rails so I wouldn’t fall overboard. In this lightning and thunder and hail, in this misery, I shouted at the heavens with my little squeaky voice and said, Someday I’m going to … Read more

Sorry, but the whole

Sorry, but the whole walking corpse epiphany kind of threw me off my game. Rachel Vincent

Arithmetic starts with the

Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc… But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of … Read more

An epiphany enables you

An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.
Abraham Isaac Kook

When we think of

When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.
A. C. Dixon

The rainbow is such

The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us.
Rene Descartes