Ali al-Rida (770–818) eighth of the Twelve Imams
Tabatabaei, Al-Mīzān, vol.8, p. 369 ; Muhammad al-Hur al-Aamili, Wasā'il al-Shī‘ah vol.11, p. 16.
Religious Wisdom
Source: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006), Ch. 8, p. 143
Ali al-Rida (770–818) eighth of the Twelve Imams
Tabatabaei, Al-Mīzān, vol.8, p. 369 ; Muhammad al-Hur al-Aamili, Wasā'il al-Shī‘ah vol.11, p. 16.
Religious Wisdom
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 87 -->
Context: In our reflection we must go back to where we stand in awe before sheer being, faced with the marvel of the moment. The world is not just here. It shocks us into amazement.
Of being itself all we can positively say is: being is ineffable. The heart of being confronts me as enigmatic, incompatible with my categories, sheer mystery. My power of probing is easily exhausted, my words fade, but what I sense is not emptiness but inexhaustible abundance, ineffable abundance. What I face I cannot utter or phrase in language. But the richness of my facing the abundance of being endows me with marvelous reward: a sense of the ineffable.
“In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Rat Race, from the album Rastaman Vibration
Song lyrics
“There is an abundance of power to be found in simplicity.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 53
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 37
“That good diffused may more abundant grow.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Source: Conversation (1782), Line 443.
“But what good’s abundance if nobody can experience it?”
Karl Schroeder (1962) Author. Technology consultant
Source: Lady of Mazes (2005), Chapter 23 (p. 256).