Quotes About Expansion

Individuals who undergo spiritual transformation as a result of their experiences, Mack said, are more "open to other realities beyond space/time…

Many of the states that have refused to expand Medicaid, even though the federal government would foot the great bulk of the bill—and would create jobs in the process—are also among America's poorest.

The tug of the lodestar slowly grew stronger until, with an abrupt quantum jump, it was a physical force prying at her mind. She felt everything else fall away, felt the same out-of-body swoon she'd experienced on First Foot when she'd stared too long at the star at the edge of the Badlands. Felt as if she was expanding beyond her body the room the ship into everywhere …

I wanted to find a new self in a distant place, and new things to care about.

So Walmart bribed Mexican officials to redraw the map in its favor, the map was published, and the big-box horror store was built, its obscene size swelling over the pyramids. But this was not the end.

Love is also a mysterious thing: the more we share it, the more it multiplies.

Like the sun, life spread its light in all direction.

Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits.

It was the new moon that Veronika loved best because there was still room for it to grow, to expand, to fill the whole of its surface with light before its inevitable decline.

The formal practice of loving-kindness or maitri has seven stages. We begin by engendering loving-kindness for ourselves and then expand it at out own pace to include loved ones, friends, neutral persons, those who irritate us, all of the above as a group, and finally, all beings throughout time and space. We gradually widen the circle of loving-kindness.

You are offered the potential of opening up into the as-yet unknown, the much bigger world where there are smells you've never smelled, there are sights you've never seen, and there are sounds you've never heard. What you could experience is so much vaster than what you currently experience. Let's go in that direction. TS:

Uno de los muchos dones de la meditación es que nos ayuda a interesarnos por nuestras vidas con curiosidad y expansión, en lugar de adoptar la posición de ver todas las complejidades que se nos presentan como una lucha constante.

One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.