Quotes About Mandalas

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Carl Jung put it this way: "The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises." With

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#4. We must not let our standards be determined by the gentlemen of the oposition

Winston S. Churchill

#5. Sometimes, so much of the difficulty is the question of 'What am I going to write about?' because the world is so vast.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#6. To the destruction of what is.

Joseph Conrad

#7. Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

Helen Caldicott

#8. The most constant thing is change.

Thomas S. Monson

#9. I have very strong Canadian connections. My daughter was born there a year and half ago. But because of the nature of my job, I need to be in countries where I can get the stories that I am looking at.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#10. It's been a lot of fun from script to script to get inside the mythology of 'Grimm.' We've been given a lot of freedom to explore the mythology as well as the backstories and interpersonal connections of the characters.

Sasha Roiz

#11. I began guitar after coming here as there wasn't a piano about. I taught myself, but my fingers just aren't cut out for the guitar, so I can't seem to get very good. Still, I like the innstrument. It's light, simple, straighforward, like a warm little room, nice and cozy.

Haruki Murakami

#12. I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.

Les Wexner