Quotes About Expansion

This could be a great time to live in," Kevin said once. "I keep thinking what an experience it would be to stay in it—go West and watch the building of the country, see how much of the Old West mythology is true.

We couldn't survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world.

City lights," she says. "Lights, progress, growth

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.

These races came to distinguish ever more minute periods of duration, and at the same time to extend their temporal grasp so as to apprehend ever longer periods as "now.

anywhere. There could be no new world, John

One discovers, and names. Conquers and civilizes.

By my final years at primary school I had realised that literature was more than just an ordinary pleasure. I could tell that reading opened entirely different worlds before me...

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

One's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its orginal dimensions.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Soudain la mer s'est répandue devant mes yeux et j'ai eu la sensation qu'on ouvrait mon cerveau pour le laisser libre de s'étendre après des jours entiers dans un Tupperware.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Civilization is the ultimate destiny of the Culture… Civilizations are the most external and artificial states of which a species of developed humanity is capable. They are a conclusion, the thing-become succeeding the thing-becoming, death following life, rigidity following expansion… petrifying world-city following mother-earth and the spiritual childhood.

There is no difference between buddhas and sentient beings other than their scope of mind. What is called mind, consciousness, or awareness, is of a single identity. The mind of a sentient being is limited. The mind of a buddha is all-pervasive. So develop a scope of mind that is like the sky, which has no limit to the east, west, north, or south.

2.   The great field of potentiality is unlimited. Absolutely anything is possible. All it takes is the willingness to open your mind, surrender "old-school" conditioning, and continue to expand into more joyful, freer, bigger ideas.

I have to jettison every sorrow, every terror, every misconception, every lie that stands between my conscious mind and what I know in my heart to be true. … I have expanded my reality from a string of solid facts, as narrow, strong, and cold as a razor's edge, to a wild chaos of possibility.