Formless Form Quotes

#1. When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.

Bruce Lee

#2. Without a need to constantly remain attached to ideas and beliefs, the clarity of your formless form recognizes the truth of itself - with nothing to confirm or ever deny.

Matthew Kahn

#3. In existence; you are matter, form or body,
Living from moment to moment in self-consciousness.
When you become formless in pure consciousness;
You dissolve into that absolute presence.

Gian Kumar

#4. In heart, mind, soul and spirit, we do not exist in a myriad of dissimilar forms. We are every possible form, which has existed and is yet to come. When we we enter a state of oneness, we get a sense of this, as our being. The "We" is transformed into an all-encompassing "I".

Anita B. Sulser PhD

#5. The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being ... Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the
thing he thinks about to be created.

Wallace D. Wattles

#9. If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

Frank Herbert

#10. Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many
myself and humanity in flux.

Charles Lindbergh

#12. In the egoic state, love gets confused with form, and so you think your love is in this form, in this other person. You don't realize that true love is the recognition of the formless in the other - which is the recognition of yourself in the other.

Eckhart Tolle

#13. The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most important dimension of human existence: the sacred, the stillness, the formless, the divine.

Eckhart Tolle

#14. The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.

Ramana Maharshi

#15. Whenever death occurs, whenever a life form dissolves, God, the formless and unmanifested, shines through the opening left by the dissolving form.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

Charlie Sheen

#17. Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Saul Bellow

#18. I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It's about 45 minutes round-trip with a variation of super steep hills and flat areas. He's always running ahead, which helps me push myself, especially up the hills.

Ana Ortiz

#19. St. Hierotheos, the great teacher quoted by Dionysius in his book on Divine Names: "As form giving form to all that is formless, in so far as It is the principle of form, the Divine Nature of the Christ is none the less formless in all that has form, since It transcends all form....

Titus Burckhardt

#20. Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.

Kodo Sawaki

#21. I supposed I've always thought if you really wanted something you shouldn't ask for it.

Wendy Brenner

#22. They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.

James C. Dobson

#23. That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

Matthew Weiner

#24. All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

John Ruskin

#25. Out of the formless the forms appear.

Mooji

#26. Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with
It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.

Ramana Maharshi

#27. I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

Sheridan Smith

#28. The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.

Marshall McLuhan

#29. Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.

Nita Ambani

#30. I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.

Nicki Minaj

#31. I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.

Gautama Buddha

#32. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Christopher Hitchens

#33. I need some kind of ... like ... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#34. Tantric Zen is the original Zen, Zen without rules, Zen without form. Zen can certainly take rules and form. So Tantric Zen might have some rules and form, but it would remain formless even though it had rules and form.

Frederick Lenz

#35. In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

Jason Aldean

#36. India is at one with the most puritan faiths of the world in her declaration that progress is from seen to unseen, from the many to the One, from the low to the high, from the form to the formless, and never in the reverse direction. She differs only in having a word of sympathy

Swami Vivekananda

#37. The formless cannot be based on the form. The form needs to be based on the formless.

John De Ruiter

#38. It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

Charles Ives

#39. In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

Swami Vivekananda

#40. The day before I left to fly in New York, I went in the ocean and was just lying on my black looking up at the sky, which was that Hawaii blue. Just that moment was worth the entire thing. The ocean is everything. It can heal you.

Gavin Rossdale

#41. It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.

Catherine Ponder

#42. Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#43. Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

Delmore Schwartz