Quotes About Newness

Being dead filled her beyond fulfillment. Like a fruit suffused with its own mystery and sweetness, she was filled with her vast death, which was so new, she could not understand that it had happened.

The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadness, the deeper and more unerringly the new will penetrate into us, the better we shall acquire it, the more it will be our fate, and then one day in the future it 'takes place' we shall feel related and close to it in our inmost hearts. And that is necessary.

If the heart longs for nothing but to be new and unlimited, the world is instantly the same as on the day of its creation and infinite.

I found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard 'new things': that is, things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new."—Ouspensky

Slova Cuvântului este veche, dar binecuvântarea e mereu nou?.

He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors. He felt as if he had left the great séance and all the murmuring ghosts. He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.

altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17

Puede atreverse a salir de su barca e ir hacia Él, y probar cosas nuevas y hacer cosas nuevas. Dios es Dios. Si comete un error, Él puede arreglarlo.

Jesus knew what we numb ones must always learn again: (a) that weeping must be real because endings are real; and (b) that weeping permits newness. His weeping permits the kingdom to come. Such weeping is a radical criticism, a fearful dismantling because it means the end of all machismo; weeping is something kings rarely do without losing their thrones. Yet the loss of thrones is precisely what is called for in radical criticism.

Two movements in human life are important: (a) deep reluctance to let loose of a world that has passed away, and (b) capacity to embrace a new world being given.

As we go to the places where we are called by God—sometimes gladly, sometimes reluctantly, always in anxiety—we are drawn into the newness of God's future.

The dominant ideology of our culture is committed to continuity and success and to the avoidance of pain, hurt, and loss. The dominant culture is also resistant to genuine newness and real surprise. It is curious but true, that surprise is as unwelcome as is loss. And our culture is organized to prevent the experience of both.

It is only a poem, and we might say rightly that singing a song does not change reality. However, we must not say that with too much conviction. The evocation of an alternative reality consists at least in part in the battle for language and the legitimization of a new rhetoric. The language of the empire is surely the language of managed reality, of production and schedule and market. But that language will never permit or cause freedom because there is no newness in it. Doxology

Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the flame.

was the best friend Logan had ever had. It helped that neither of them had had a best friend before.

Miles was the best friend Logan had ever had. It helped that neither of them had had a best friend before.

Es increíble que una persona que acaba de entrar en tu vida pueda demostrarte más sentimientos que otras personas que han estado ahí siempre…

Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

In leadership, energy is one of the essential ingredients needed for bringing any sense of new to the table. It's energy that produces excitement in others. You

But His resurrection ensures that the story of Jesus is just beginning—the story continues!

Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.

There exists only the present instant … a Now which always and without end is itself new. MEISTER ECKHART

L'amore appena nato ha una visione a tunnel della realtà, la sua retina è uno schermo cinematografico, vede il mondo rifatto secondo la sua utopistica interpretazione.

To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.