Quotes About Mandala

#1. And in the bloodlit dark behind his eyes, silver phosphenes boiled in from the edge of space, hypnagogic images jerking past like a film compiled of random frames. Symbols, figures, faces, a blurred, fragmented mandala of visual information.

William Gibson

#2. did a soul's path adhere to a pattern, like the connecting lines on a mandala?

Gwendolyn Womack

#3. From the body of the unborn essence arises the sphere of light, and from that sphere of light arises wisdom. From the wisdom arises the seed syllable and from the seed syllable arises the complete Mandala, the deity and the retinue.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

#4. Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life ... everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.

Pema Chodron

#5. In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in the mind during meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#6. My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day ... I guarded them like precious pearls ... It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.

Carl Jung

#7. [T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self - a symbol of each of us.

Don Richard Riso

#8. The full moon - the mandala of the sky.

Tom Robbins

#9. The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man.

Carl Jung

#10. A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.

Fritjof Capra

#11. The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

Stephen Gardiner

#12. The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.

Douglas Preston

#13. A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

Carl Jung

#14. In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

Carl Jung

#15. Very few people live in the same house they move into when they're married or the same neighborhood when they're married. Very few people certainly live in the neighborhood they grew up in.

Mike Barnicle

#16. Try to grow straight, and life will bend you.

G.K. Chesterton

#17. Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.

Spencer W. Kimball

#18. Can anyone actually find a replacement for a lost loved one?
Isn't there a difference between things and human beings?

Honeya

#19. Love - such a keen mystery prone to pierce and shatter the delicate heart. Yet it possesses more strength, power, and influence than any other magic known to man.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

#21. We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

John Dewey

#22. finding in motion, what was once in place

Brian Heffron