One must give back the stare of the universe. Anybody can. —Hortense Calisher More about this quote Tags: wonder universe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Hortense Calisher Hortense Calisher (December 20, 1911 – January 13, 2009) was an American writer of fiction and the second female president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
More quotations from Hortense Calisher This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. —Hortense Calisher More about this quote Tags: ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. —Hortense Calisher More about this quote Tags: ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “universe” The Qabalists believed that the universe was created from sound. Thus by reciting sacred sounds, changes or transformations of matter could take place. Healing could simply consist of reinvoking those sacred sounds in the body. . . . Perhaps this is what the shamans do when they chant. —Fred Alan Wolf More about this quote Tags: change universe transformation sound healing chanting shamanism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness. . . . The whole show has been on fire from the word go. —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: creation universe extravagence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know. —Amy Lowell More about this quote Tags: love mystery universe sex magic Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. —Robert Anton Wilson More about this quote Tags: universe beginnings process Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness and enlarge his vision not only of himself, but also of the universe in which he lives. —Ann Faraday More about this quote Tags: mind vision experience dreams universe body consciousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Qabalists believed that the universe was created from sound. Thus by reciting sacred sounds, changes or transformations of matter could take place. Healing could simply consist of reinvoking those sacred sounds in the body. . . . Perhaps this is what the shamans do when they chant. —Fred Alan Wolf More about this quote Tags: change universe transformation sound healing chanting shamanism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness. . . . The whole show has been on fire from the word go. —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: creation universe extravagence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know. —Amy Lowell More about this quote Tags: love mystery universe sex magic Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. —Robert Anton Wilson More about this quote Tags: universe beginnings process Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness and enlarge his vision not only of himself, but also of the universe in which he lives. —Ann Faraday More about this quote Tags: mind vision experience dreams universe body consciousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email