Vision Quotes - Page 19

• Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

  Bede Griffiths

  Reality, Adequate, Awareness

  Bede Griffiths (2004). “Bede Griffiths: Essential Writings”

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• The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened mind, which manifests itself on the plane of timeless meditative vision.

  Anagarika Govinda

  Clouds, Creative, Mind

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• There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

  Euripides

  Sight, Luck, Enemy

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Future, People, Environmental

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• Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

  Denis Waitley

  Funny, Life, Attitude

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• Each band or level, being a particular manifestation of the spectrum, is what it is only by virtue of the other bands. The color blue is no less beautiful because it exists along side the other colors of a rainbow, and "blueness" itself depends upon the existence of the other colors, for if there were no color but blue, we would never be able to see it.

  Ken Wilber

  Beautiful, Blue, Color

  "The Spectrum of Consciousness". Book by Ken Wilber, 1993.

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• O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

  John Keats

  Olympus, Hierarchy, Born

  John Keats (1859). “The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Life”, p.314

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• She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.

  Ralph Nader

  Light, Anchors, Compass

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• It's not just straight-line speed. He's got the agility and the quickness to go with it. His vision on the field is phenomenal. It just opens the playbook so much as a coach that I'm really looking forward to it.

  LeBron James

  Agility, Lines, Fields

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• Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

  Edward Steichen

  Awe, Feels, Seeing

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• Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

  Laozi

  Light, Darkness Within, Imagination

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• Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Falling In Love, Artistic, Clarity

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• Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art, Flower, Taken

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• Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved.

  Robin Lane Fox

  Work, Eye, Giving

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• I saw this vision with a beautiful plastic bag in Kensington High Street, ... and then you didn't see the face because he had this blond thing [indicating a sweeping fringe across his face] that was, you know, too much!

  Manolo Blahnik

  Beautiful, Bags, Too Much

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• The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to each other. You become a scientist as well as an artist, with the lines between increasingly blurred.

  Marjorie Harris

  Eye, Artist, Garden

  Marjorie Harris (1995). “In the Garden: Thoughts on Changing Seasons”, HarperCollins

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• Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to see itself. This is indeed amazing. Not so much in view of what it sees, although this may appear fantastic enough, but in respect of the fact that it can see at all. But in order to do so, evidently it must first cut itself up into a least one state which sees, and at least one other state which is seen.

  George Spencer-Brown

  Cutting, Views, Order

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• Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at.

  Aldous Huxley

  Flower, Blessed, Garden

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

  Arthur Symons

  Eye, Way, Taught

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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• We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything - in people and in things and in nature and in events ... The only thing is we don't see it ... I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere.

  Thomas Merton

  People, Shining, Heaven

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• Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Different, Angle

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• When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Eye, Imperfection

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

  George Carlin

  Mean, Opposites, Awe

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• This vision is within our grasp.

  Francois Boucher

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• We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

  Frederick Franck

  Lenses, Looks, Telescopes

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