Flowering Quotes - Page 3

• [W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.

  Rajneesh

  Glowing, Space, Silence

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• Religion is not a result of something that you practice. Religion enters in you any moment you relax. Religion is a flowering of relaxation, not a result of practicing. Remember the difference because when you practice you become more tense.

  Rajneesh

  Differences, Practice, Relaxation

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• I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Religious, Betrayal, Symbolism

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• The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

  Carson McCullers

  Dream, Art, Struggle

  Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

  Haile Selassie

  Art, Sacrifice, Tree

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• Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the expressions of her culture. In fact, they have grown out of her inborn spiritual tendency of which her religion is a natural out flowering. The Indian mind has always realized that the Supreme is the Infinite and perceived that to the soul in Nature the Infinite must always present itself in an infinite variety of aspects.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Character, Keys

  "A Defense of Indian Culture". Essay by Sri Aurobindo, as quoted in Sisirkumar Mitra "The Vision of India", 1947.

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• Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring and the flowering of life. The Goddess manifests as the May Queen and Flora. The God emerges as the May King and Jack in the Green. The danced Maypole represents Their unity, with the pole itself being the God and the ribbons that encompass it, the Goddess. Colors are the Rainbow spectrum. Beltane is a festival of flowers, fertility, sensuality, and delight.

  Selena Fox

  Kings, Queens, Spring

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• Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Honesty, Mistake, Responsibility

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• Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

  Caroline Myss

  Self Esteem, Empowerment, Intuition

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• Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Earth

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• O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Spring, Moving, Men

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• On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

  James Salter

  Writing, Internet

  "James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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• Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.

  Paul Reps

  Unique, Joy, Giants

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• What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the new flowering of humankind-come-of-age (the 'Enlightenment') and so deemed to be above revision. At this point the urgent need is for prayer and prophecy.

  N. T. Wright

  Prayer, America, Age

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• The idea is distributed in space. It isn't only in one part; one part can't express the idea any longer, only the union of parts can completely express the idea. The idea found it necessary to be presented by several parts. After that, there was a rapid flowering of polyphony.

  Anton Webern

  Ideas, Space, Unions

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? It is true that society in general does not help one accept this interpretation of the second half of life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Growth, Age, Doe

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• Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Blessed, Years, Sight

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”

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• We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

  Judy Grahn

  Color, Secret, Lavender

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• I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.

  Nina Berberova

  Passion, Joy, Feelings

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• The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.

  Juliana Berners

  Sports, Mean, Men

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• People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

  Lynn Margulis

  Thinking, People, Earth

  "Attack of the Microbiologists" by Elizabeth Royte, www.nytimes.com. January 14, 1996.

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• Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Rain, Eye, Men

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.647, Simon and Schuster

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• Courage is freedom, and freedom is joy. Be fully who you are, letting the world get used to you - it will! Find a loving community of friends who support your ever-flowering growth, which is a lifetime proposition.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Change, Support, Community

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• They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all it is. It is not a socialist seed. It is not a capitalist seed. It is not a mystical seed. It is not a determinist seed. It is simply a statement. We can be free. After that it’s all choice and chance.

  Karl Hess

  Spring, Ideas, Choices

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• My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Home, Heart, Order

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