Chaos Quotes - Page 18

• The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Smell, Religion, Looks

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

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• If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.

  Renford Reese

  Religion, Care, Littles

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• When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

  Alan Watts

  Mind, Religion, Looks

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

  Max De Pree

  Change, Sloth, Continuity

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• A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.

  David Byrne

  Sexy, Cities, Littles

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• Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Order, Made

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• Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.

  Michele Cassou

  Soul, Intuition, Creation

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• One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

  Molly Haskell

  Love Is, Order, Harmony

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Meaning Of Life, Way, Moments

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 26, 2013

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• It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

  George Washington

  Causes, Natural, Allegiance

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• What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.

  Katherine Paterson

  Order, Grace, Able

  Katherine Paterson (1981). “Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Everyday life surrounds us in a swirling chaos, and it's easy to fall into the grip of our ego's fears and confusion. Remind yourself each day of your intentions and spiritual purpose. Meditate, find your center, look closely at yourself, and don't let go of your intention until it feels centered inside yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Fall

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• Music is structure out of Chaos

  Stephen Sondheim

  Structure, Music Is

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• To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.

  Ken Wilber

  Circles, Understanding, Complexity

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.200, Shambhala Publications

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• The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.

  Gregory Bateson

  Spiritual, Emotional, Hands

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• Art can make chaos seductive.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Seductive

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• Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

  William Blake

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Attention

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• Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially disrobed and rising, a sort of chaos reigns still, which only anomalous creatures can inhabit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Land, Water

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.768, Delphi Classics

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• Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.

  Novalis

  Self, World, Unions

  "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.

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• In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Darkness, Add, Desert

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.23

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• At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.

  John Cheever

  Ignorance, Light, Two

  "The Journals of John Cheever" by Robert Gottlieb, 1966.

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• I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Dying, Comfort, Lessons

  Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

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• Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

  Louise Erdrich

  Ice, Rivers, Existence

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• There has to be pain. That's the rule.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain

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• I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, World, Ends

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