Quotes About Unfolding

#1. When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

#2. No matter what you are experiencing in life right now, trust that all is unfolding in your best interests.

Robin Sharma

#3. The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom.

Timothy Radcliffe

#4. Everything is always changing.
"There is a cause-and-effect lawfulness that governs all unfolding experience.
"What I do matters, but I am not in charge. Suffering results from struggling with what is beyond my control. [pp. 27-28]

Sylvia Boorstein

#5. Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

Brian Greene

#6. No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.

Annie Besant

#7. The life of your dreams begins with the unfolding of consciousness from within.

Jiulio Consiglio

#8. Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts.

Frederick Lenz

#9. You must be a Lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

#10. May my life flow like a river, ever surprised by its own unfolding.

John O'Donohue

#11. The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Karl Jaspers

#12. The mountains here contained a sense of time, geologic time. They lay in embryo, a process unfolding, or a shriveled dying perhaps. They had the look of naked events.

Don DeLillo

#13. The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.

Ernest Holmes

#14. If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

Gus Van Sant

#15. That is what I love best about dreams, and about makings, good makings. They are folded-up buds of complications and mysteries, and if you stay with them patiently, they will unfold and unfold, and never stop unfolding. Dreams are flowers that never stop blooming.

Katherine Catmull

#16. How wise should we be if, with joyful certainty, we accepted each unfolding of His will as a proof of His faithfulness and love!

Susannah Spurgeon

#17. God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

Louie Giglio

#18. It is only me, the body in the shower, one person enclosed in plastic watching a drop of water skate down the wet curtain. The moment is there to be forgotten. This seems the ultimate point. It is a moment never to be thought of except when it is in the process of unfolding.

Don DeLillo

#19. I'll put into words my experience as it is unfolding now in my life ... in such a way that I might find comfort in knowing that someone else has the same thoughts and experiences.

Sara Genn

#20. Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.

Julia Glass

#21. The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straightening as he or she drew nearer. Unfolding ...

Laird Barron

#22. Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Jon Meacham

#23. Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.

Francis Of Assisi

#24. Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

John Lennon

#25. He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves.

Lois Lowry

#26. Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#27. Faith is revelation. And in order to receive revelation you have to be open. Belief is about closing yourself off
a lie you tell yourself to make the world fit in with how you've decided it should be. Real faith is an action - a verb. It's truth unfolding.

Nafisa Haji

#28. There is no emergency. My divine timing is perfect and serves you well. Trust my sense of right action. Your successful unfolding is my great joy.

Julia Cameron

#29. Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. He had backed her every dream, loved her every flaw, and seen their marriage as a story unfolding.

Fawn Weaver

#31. Best wishes to all the fonts in all the texts in all the books that make for a world of unfolding stories.

Michael Ray Smith

#32. It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.

Rudy Rucker

#33. Once again she had the disorientating feeling that her past was still happening, unfolding in a parallel stream right alongside her present.

Nell Freudenberger

#34. Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.

Jessica Lange

#35. Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

Annie Proulx

#36. In general, if we carefully examine any given situation in a very unbiased and honest way, we will realize that to a large extent we are also responsible for the unfolding of events.

Dalai Lama XIV

#37. The pain is such that I refuse to acknowledge it. I feel numb. I have somehow escaped from my body and am now a casual observer to this unfolding tragedy.

E.L. James

#38. True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.

Deepak Chopra

#39. Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

Mark Hopkins

#40. View others as unfolding beings in their journey toward higher consciousness.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#41. Become totally empty
Quiet the restlessness of the mind
Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

Lao-Tzu

#42. intrigues of love are unfolding as they do among the young, and as they do as well among the snails on the lettuce and the shiny green beetles that plague the kale. Murmurings, the shrug of a shoulder, the step forward, the step back. Toby

Margaret Atwood

#43. I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

Brian Selznick

#44. As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

Tom Hanks

#45. There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way.

Hilary Swank

#46. Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

Jim Morrison

#47. The unfolding of the bare human soul ... that is what interests me.

Bruce Lee

#48. War has crossed out the day and replaced it with horror, and now horrors are unfolding instead of days.

Zlata Filipovic

#49. At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly.

Deepak Chopra

#50. The dreamer is the whole dream. For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives, our business and our relationships as a constant unfolding.

Tim Girvin

#51. The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

Frederick Lenz

#52. When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.

Marianne Williamson

#53. In the unfolding of eternity, a single lifetime was just a passing moment...' Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon

Oliver Rixon

#54. For my brother and me, there would be no 'Field of Dreams'-like playing catch, no nature lessons with our old man. Instead, it would be a darkened theater, the projector light coming on, and a new adventure unfolding.

Bob Weinstein

#55. But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

Carre Otis

#56. Might be that marriage was not the death of a woman and the end of her true self, but the unfolding of her. It might be that a woman could be a wife without having to cut the pride and the spirit out of herself. A woman might blossom into being a wife, not be trimmed down to fit.

Philippa Gregory

#57. All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us the need and by giving that need as a burden in our intuitive spirit. Only an intuitive burden can constitute our call to pray.

Watchman Nee

#58. Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That's all.

Robert Adams

#59. If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.

Simon Blackburn

#60. A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph

Warren Buffett

#61. O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs conspire against you! Hear hem! They hold you from behind.

William Carlos Williams

#62. The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

Yves Tanguy

#63. The feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers
all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.

Sue Monk Kidd

#64. There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

#65. Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#66. Psalm 119:130: "The unfolding of Your words gives light; it gives understanding

Emerson Eggerichs

#67. I do not remember our love unfolding, that we got to know one another and in time became friends. I only remember that she came through the door and it was there, huge and permanent and first.

Ann Patchett

#68. I could not take my eyes off her. It was as if she were performing some trick, some sort of unfolding. There was something raw and exposed about her, as if many things had already happened between us, as if time had leapt ahead and we were already lovers.

Lily King

#69. Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

Elbert Hubbard

#70. I would love to live like a river flows,
carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

John O'Donohue

#71. Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding

Cheryl Strayed

#72. Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

Dean Koontz

#73. As I raced toward him, I had what can only be described as an out-of-body experience. Even as I ran, I was looking down from above, the scene unfolding one frozen frame at a time. Each step seemed to last an eternity.

Anonymous

#74. Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

Jack Kornfield

#75. CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts.

George Bernard Shaw

#76. The pleasure of the soul appears to be found in the journey of discovery, the unfolding revelation of expanded insight and experience.

Anthony Lawlor

#77. To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from the dream. The dreamer cannot enter that dream, precisely as it was unfolding, ever again.

Mary Oliver

#78. do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. - NIKOLA TESLA, 1896, INVENTOR OF ALTERNATING CURRENT

Ray Kurzweil

#79. If you are experiencing confusion, pain, and suffering, it may be that God is working things out for you in his own way. It is most often the sovereign work of our God unfolding a master plan known only to him.

David Wilkerson

#80. It is all, the unfolding. Neither good nor bad, my destiny.

T. Scott McLeod

#81. If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

Maria Montessori

#82. When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.

Joel Hodgson

#83. Once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

Mary Shelley

#84. The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person could never conceive or direct.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#85. The one whose ego of doer-ship in the unfolding karma effect (oodai no garva) is gone; he is said to have attained the Self.

Dada Bhagwan

#86. We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

Russell Simmons

#87. This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

Terence McKenna

#88. As the child's mind was growing into knowledge, his mind was growing into memory: as her life unfolded, his soul, long stupefied in a cold, narrow prison, was unfolding too, and trembling gradually into full consciousness.

George Eliot

#89. Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

Amit Ray

#90. We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

Jack Kornfield

#91. Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine.

Sean Stephenson

#92. Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.

Wayne Teasdale

#93. I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time.

Lawren Harris

#94. There's a story unfolding with a definite beginning and an eventual end, and even though we can't begin to imagine what the whole plot is, and we can hardly even see beyond the present moment, someday we're going to see and understand all of it. For now, we trust. Later, we'll know.

Ann Tatlock

#95. An erotic photograph is like a still from an unfolding story that makes you wonder what has already happened and what is about to happen next.

Chloe Thurlow

#96. Life is lived forwards and understood backwards. The mystery of where all the jigsaw pieces fit together is still unfolding and for that I am, and will always be, more than happy

Sheila Whiteley

#97. Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.

Sharon Salzberg

#98. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

Arthur H. Compton

#99. So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.
(Initiation)

Sylvia Plath

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D.U. Sivri