Soen Nakagawa Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.”
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“All beings are flowers blossoming In a blossoming universe.”
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“Swallow the stars until you are one with the universe, with all-pervading universal life.”
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“This world is so wonderful, so Unthinkable and Ungraspable. What are we touching right here and now?”
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“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”
Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72
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“When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.”
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“The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.”
Source : Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), Alexander Calder (1974). “Alexander Calder: a retrospective exhibition. Work from 1925 to 1974”
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“I think the universe is just so big that there has to be something else out there.”
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“Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.”
Source : Amber Dermont (2012). “The Starboard Sea: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan
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“Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.”
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