Quotes About Renewal

That is how a farmer walks across the soil in spring--and later, in summer, the traces of his steps are obscured by the billowing richness of the wheat he once sowed.

Perhaps the only possible answer to the primal estrangement is re-presentation, the constantly renewed ordering of the metaphoric experience and its re-enactment in the maturation process of the individual. And what representation is more elemental than reflection?

Blossomheart

With this life I give you hope," she announced solemnly. "Even on the darkest night, it will be there, waiting for you.

The past is the past. The future is fresh. You must forget all you have known, no matter how much you loved it, and choose paths that will carry you to a new dawn." -Bright Stream

Gorse came back.

when you come back.

Suddenly, the dank air freshened.

After secretly observing the unstudied grace of her movements, the most celebrated picture-maker of the province burned the implements of his craft, and began life anew as a trainer of performing elephants.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.

The couch from which the sick man arises would only be perfect if he was refreshed instead of merely patched up.

Die Menschenordnung gleicht dem Kosmos darin, daß sie von Zeit zu Zeiten, um sich von neuem zu gebären, ins Feuer tauchen muß.

I am the window-cleaner, here to cause the cleansing pain.

C'è in me quello che si trova in molti uomini del mondo, amori, spari, qualche frase piena di spine, nessuna voglia di parlarne. Siamo dozzina noi altri uomini. Speciale è solo vivere, guardarsi di sera il palmo di mano e sapere che domani torna fresco di nuovo, che il sarto della notte cuce pelle, rammenda calli, rabbercia gli strappi e sgonfia la fatica.

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

Sul corno insanguinato del vincitore si posarono le farfalle bianche. Una di loro ci restò per sempre, per generazioni di farfalle, petalo a sbattere nel vento sopra il re dei camosci nelle stagioni da aprile a novembre.

Gli assenti hanno bisogno di una voce che li chiami fuori dall'assenza e li costringa a starci nuovamente, per la durata di una canzone almeno

Quando un uomo si ferma a guardare le nuvole, vede scorrere il tempo oltre di lui, un vento che scavalca. Allora c'è da rimettersi in piedi e riacciuffarlo.

He knew the time for burning and plowing had ended the day before, but there still lingered in the warm March air something of the new season. The smell of freshly turned earth and the odor of pine and sedge-smoke hovered over the land even after burning and plowing was done. He breathed deeply of it, filling his body with the invigorating aroma.

At any moment, a human being can receive new energy from the wellspring of the universe. However, to receive this pristine energy, our thoughts need to connect with it. We can do this with pure prayer or with peace-loving thoughts such as "I am so grateful! Everything will definitely get better!" or "May peace prevail on Earth!