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The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence.
We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible.
Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.
indifference but detachment
When I'm invisible I don't have to feel anything. The pain and grief and fear goes away. I go numb and quiet.
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.
Some men acheive insignificance. Others have insignificance thrust upon them.
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
Modesty is Invisibility
Those who consider the inessential to be essential
And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential,
Living in the field of wrong intention
What's out of sight, is out of mind
Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium - indifference.
Becoming unshakeable through this storm.
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image.
The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.
A thing too familiar becomes invisible.
It's what's invisible that creates what's visible.
Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.
Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.
[The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy.
In certain ways it was easy for others to take advantage of him. He refused to complain about anything. [ ... ] Impenetrable. And because of that, at times almost serene.
In a land of fear ... incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all in the house.
When you are able to understand the language of silence, you will be able to see the beauty of the invisible.
The most impregnable wall invisibly divides you from yourself.
Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility
I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!
I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is
chilly for a man without clothes.
Inconstancy. - Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
Silence too can be indiscreet.
How does something so invisible make one so invincible?
Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.
Implacable man can inflict on one who has offended
One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.
Everything is inconceivable. The whole world is inconceivable to the strict logic of ideas. And yet the world exists to our senses, and we exist in it. There must be a necessity superior to our conceptions.
Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.
There are some things which are known only to oneself and one's maker. These are clearly incommunicable.
Sometimes the emptiness in a room becomes palpable as if you could reach out and touch it real, hear its silence, feel its black nothingness. It invades your spirit, your soul like a stealthy misperception; a liquid lie that whispers and will not die, and makes you fight to stay alive.
When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that's greater than zero.
Eternity: for all its invisibility, we gaze at it.
Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power." He
This thing that bewilders the intellect utterly quiets the heart:
What is within is untouchable.
Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.
There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.
Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
a deep smothering emptiness
The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile.
The temerity to believe in nothing.
The mind can perceive the impossible.
The heart can endure the impossible.
The soul can experience the impossible.
The hands can do the impossible.
The tongue can express the impossible.
The eyes can discern the impossible.
The ears can understand the impossible.
... that exasperating quality for which we have no name, which certainly is not accuracy, and which is quite the opposite of judgement, yet which catches the mind as brambles do our clothes.
You're impossible.
You're delectable.
You're incorrigible.
You're edible.
I sigh, frustrated and turned on.
You know it's true. He inches closer.
No, I can't really say that I do.
Well, I can.
Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.
The Magician makes the visible, invisible.
The Scientist makes the invisible, visible.
The Artist stands in between, indivisible.
A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows
Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.
The power of the visible is the invisible.
Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.
Failure is a stripping away of the inessential.
The impudence of Ignorance
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
I like the imp / in impossibility
I have a severe case of invisibility-plus-impulsive-behavior that I am calling, for the purposes of this memoir, Xamnesia. It
Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.
What else but a profound feeling of being excluded can enable a person better to see the absurdity of the world and his own existence, or, to put it more soberly, the absurd dimensions of the world and his own existence?
In indolent vacuity of thought.
Beyond the visible is invisible.
INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.
Whether it's a house or the stars or the desert, what makes them beautiful is invisible.
An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
Thought is invisible nature.
Invisible people see invisible things.
Impossible is NothingImpossible-- Deming
Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.
The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
What is good is irrepressible.
Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.
Some things are so horrible they need to be hidden right after they become visible. They are too horrible to be seen except very slowly, or in very small amounts. Or they are too beautiful.
I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't.
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Fabulosity. It's a state of being.
[The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than in the self-existence of the universe, visibly destitute of these attributes, and which may be the effect of them.
Nothing is unfixable, except the fact that you're gone
Can you, like, see invisible people, too?"
"No," Warner says to him, eyes focused in front of him. "I can feel your presence. Hers, most of all."
"Really?" Kenji says. "That's some weird shit. What do I feel like? Peanut butter?"
Warner is unamused.
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.
I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.
Adorkable. It's in its own category.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
If we speak of things as inert or inanimate objects, we deny their ability to actively engage and interact with us - we foreclose their capacity to reciprocate our attentions, to draw us into silent dialogue, to inform and instruct us.
When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.
One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
Invincible ignorance could not be enlightened; and