Spirals Quotes

• We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

  Hermann Hesse

  Yoga, Buddhism, Circles

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.17, Om Books International

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• The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

  John Hartford

  Circles, Everything Happens For A Reason, Rhythm

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• The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Circles, Form, Vicious

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951”, Library of America

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• Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

  Madame de Stael

  Learning, Mind, Progress

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

  William Butler Yeats

  Journey, Numbers, Progress

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• Like a circle in a spiral
  Like a wheel within a wheel
  Never ending or beginning
  On an ever-spinning reel
  As the images unwind
  Like the circles that you find
  In the windmills of your mind.

  Michel Legrand

  Song, Circles, Mind

  Song: The Windmills of Your Mind

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• The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Journey

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• The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

  Marion Milner

  Time, Learning, Understanding

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.33, Taylor & Francis

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• Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms—rarely if ever in simple straight lines.

  Starhawk

  Moving, Simple, Circles

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• Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

  Rumi

  Voice, Roots, Long

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• The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Dna, Culture, Shells

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• Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Business, Organization, Growth

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• Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self. ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Real, Heart

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• Spiral minds are harder to twist.

  Kris Saknussemm

  Mind, Twists, Harder

  Kris Saknussemm (2005). “Zanesville: A Novel”, p.40, Villard

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• All motion is curved and all curvature is spiral.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Nature

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• The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.

  Elif Safak

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Growth, Progress, Lines

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• It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles. You slipped into this dimension as a shimmering burst of spiral hallelujahs. You blasted into this realm as a lush explosion of ecstatic gratitude. And it is your birthright to fulfill those promises.

  Rob Brezsny

  Gratitude, Art, Promise

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• You are one with the same force that provides the spiral arms of the galaxy. That universal creativity. It's also what you are as well. And when the mystic eye is open and sees that, a person is forever changed !

  Alex Grey

  Creativity, Eye, Forever

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• We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.

  Carl Jung

  Wise, Moving, Independence

  "The Collected Works of C. G. Jung".

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• A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Music, Reflection, Circles

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• Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Hallucinations, Modern, Linear

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• For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round.
  Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Circles, Phases

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

  Ezra Pound

  Time, Past, Here And There

  Ezra Pound (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.253, New Directions Publishing

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