Quotes About Renewal

God wants us dead. Or better: God wants us to get used to the need to die, not once, but as a pattern for our lives.

The temperature fell. The rain quickened, thinning the clouds, clearing the sky. Evolution began once more.

Life's a bitch, then you rejuvenate and do it all over again.

The unchallenged maintenance of a bond is experienced as a source of security and the renewal of a bond as a source of

To the earth shall you return.

Ich schließe meine Augen. Was da drinnen los ist. Was da zappelt, was da wie ein blinder Fisch durch den Schmerz schwimmt, für immer und ewig. Was da lebt, was bleibt. Was sich erneuert, die Liebe und den Schmerz lebendig hält. Die Liebe ist das Flussbett, das sich mit Schmerz füllt. Es füllt sich jeden Tag aufs Neue mit Tränen.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace. And don't worry, compa, you will be rowdy and out of control again. You will throw off every kind of light. You can't help yourself.

Magical. I mean to watch a person let go of something and flower.

A husk of herself that had been a barrier I hadn't even been aware of. And in the sloughing off, she opened and flowered. Corny, huh? Not really. Magical. I mean to watch a person let go of something and flower. I wouldn't know what it is she let go of.

Scheme against your most sacred principles in thought, word and deed…. The only clear view is from atop a mountain of your dead selves.

And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

In Noahís six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.

So the people rested on the seventh day.

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.