Quotes About Spaciousness

#1. Presence is a state of inner spaciousness

Eckhart Tolle

#2. My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Thom Mayne

#3. They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

Arjuna Ardagh

#4. In any relationship, especially marriage, be as free of compulsive thinking as possible. In other words, the more space there is in the relationship - inner space - the more love there is because love arises out of the inner spaciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.

Stephen Levine

#6. the heaven to which Jesus points is the spaciousness within ourselves - one that makes room for those who threaten us, for those who are different, even for those who have betrayed us.

Mirabai Starr

#7. I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

C. G. Jung

#8. Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. Nothing I could say could repel or shock her; there seemed no limit to her powers of sympathy and understanding, the generosity and spaciousness of her heart.

Oliver Sacks

#10. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are.

Richard Rohr

#11. How can love's spaciousness
be conveyed in the narrow
confines of one syllable?

Diane Ackerman

#12. Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.

David Whyte

#13. For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity ...

Frank Lloyd Wright

#14. His hostess was one of those women who even in an overcrowded room can create a sense of spaciousness.

Elizabeth Goudge

#15. Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness. There's a vast stillness and there's a little ripple activity on the surface, which isn't separate, just like the ripples are not separate from the ocean.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose it again, pause, and anchor again. Practice, practice, continuous practice-becaus e when you're in touch with the inner body, spaciousness arises.

Eckhart Tolle

#17. I love the leisurely amplitude, the spaciousness, of taking a walk, of heading somewhere, anywhere, on foot. I love the sheer adventure of it: setting out and taking off.

Edward Hirsch

#18. When you say "yes" to the "isness" of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.

May Sarton

#20. Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease.

Allan Lokos

#21. In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness ... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself ... This is what I think about Russian suicides.

Anton Chekhov

#22. I'm pretty sure that it is only by experiencing that ocean of sadness in a naked and immediate way that we come to be healed
which is to say, that we come to experience life with a real sense of presence and spaciousness and peace.

Anne Lamott

#23. Heaven is the natural spaciousness of our mind before we make it small with self-protection.

Sakyong Mipham

#24. It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.
-Pema Chodron, from When Things Fall Apart

Pema Chodron

#25. The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

Stewart Udall

#26. When we drop all of our painful effort to attain something, then suddenly there is spaciousness in our consciousness, a sense of being unobstructed, and we are able to enjoy life as it comes.

Anam Thubten

#27. Whatever is your present experience, you can recognize the spaciousness that allows it to be. You are this spaciousness, this awareness, this love. Deeper love and more spacious awareness is the best lesson you can get from any experience.

David Deida

#28. [David] Salle's earlier work had been marked by a kind of spaciousness, sometimes an emptiness, such as surrealist works are prone to. But here everything was condensed, impacted, mired. The paintings were like an ugly mood.

Janet Malcolm

#29. In violent times folk like to kneel to violent men. In peaceful times they remember they're happier standing.

Joe Abercrombie

#30. all the animals in the zoo of me have broken out of their cages. "Maybe

Jandy Nelson

#31. Somehow, the remaining factions of the Empire are still fueling their war effort even months after the destruction of their second battle station.

Chuck Wendig

#32. From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.

Don King

#33. I always beat the sun up in the morning. It's the secret to why I'm double trouble.

Al Sharpton

#34. When everything went wrong at once, it felt like folding origami in a hurricane.

Lola Dodge