Quotes About Expansiveness

If you have a big heart, you will live a large life.

An emptiness opened inside me that could have swallowed the whole universe.

Low ceilings cramp your thoughts, whereas vaulted ceilings, especially if they are circular and open to natural light, tend to release your thoughts, to let them rise.

The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

To plunge one thing into the shape or nature of another is a fundamental gesture of creative insight, part of how we make for ourselves a world more expansive, deft, fertile, and startling in richness.

Not everyone likes a ceiling," her mommy said. "Some of us like the sky.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion." Rumi

Bigger room, darling. Like I said, we need a bigger room.

An aurora borealis rises over festive orchards; the branches of the trees immediately begin to bud, to blossom, to bend under the weight of their fruit. The child runs through the wild grass, heading for the Wall. It collapses like a big cardboard box, broadening the horizon and exorcising the fields, which extend over the plains as far as the eye can see...Run...And the child runs, laughing all the while, his arms spread out like a bird's wings.

You must learn one thing: the world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you." ? David Whyte

There is no need for false solidity when you are at peace with the universal expanse of your true Being.

what filled the vast regions between

The world was his divan. There was such a freedom in it.

nature, in her limitlessness, has no concern for the boundaries of our mortal imaginations.

How good it is to look sometimes across great spaces, to lift one's eyes from narrowness, to feel the large silence that rests on lonely hills!

oh, wide and splendid world! How good it is to look sometimes across great spaces, to lift one's eyes from narrowness, to feel the large silence that rests on lonely hills!

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.

He could even be grateful in a sense that he had no particular area of interest: in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.

You may think I'm small, but I have a universe in my head.

The seas are wide and flow together. They have no borders and have room enough for all fish.

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.