Quotes About Expansion

Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his limitations is based on experience of the past. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits to what he may be, or what he may do. — Aleister Crowley, Magick

Dr. John Lilly says, "In the province of the mind what is believed true is true or becomes true within limits to be learned by experience and experiment. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits.

The only sensible goal, then, is to try to build a reality-tunnel for next week that is bigger, funnier, sexier, more optimistic and generally less boring than any previous reality-tunnel.

Like marijuana, a Wellesian long shot creates an information overload and provokes you to enlarge your reality-tunnel to accommodate it.

And once you have built that bigger, funnier, happier universe of thought, build a bigger and better one, for next month.

In short, we are living in a mental transform space--Tielhard de Chardin's noösphere--that is, an omnidimensional halo expanding towards infinity in all directions. And the electronic center of this halo of mentation, this noösphere, is poentially everywhere. It is all available to you right where you are sitting now. Just plug in a terminal. The machine doesn't care who or what you are.

In the province of the mind, what is believed to be true is true or becomes true, within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind, there are no limits . . .

And so forth and so on.

And once a beachhead is established, it is crucial to push inland as quickly as possible. The idea is not simply to seize a beach but to take enemy-held territory.

We saw the new gymnasium and the new science labs and the newly expanded library and the new theater arts building and a lot of coeds with moussed hair and bright plastic hair clips and skin cancer tans.

Mahan held that a nation must expand or decline—for it was impossible for a nation to hold its own while standing still.

you must seek to become more than what you are by exposing yourself to different lands

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Moving towards mastery will naturally bring you a more global outlook, but it is always wise to expedite the process by training yourself early on to continually enlarge your perspective.

His mind seemed to expand as time became malleable, and with a sudden pop he could almost feel the world reset with a crystalline clarity of lost chances.

bubbles and Ponzi schemes and capitalism all have to keep growing or else they are in deep shit.

For that world out there we just saw. For humanity. What's it been, about fifteen thousand people, and a couple hundred years? In the big scheme of things it's not that many. And then we have a new world to live on." "If

He saw that they were all working together at the first step of the species' break from the home world, and he understood that if the first step were taken successfully, with balance, they could run from star to star all across the night.

It's good to leave behind all that is comfortable and known every so often. It opens one's mind to the wide world.

La tua terra non è semplicemente il posto dove sei nato e vissuto da bambino. La tua terra si espande e man mano che tu vivi le tue radici affondano nel suolo di altri paesi. E' un dono della vita, ma anche un peso, perchè gioia e nostalgia diventano tuoi compagni sempre più inseparabili.

Nothing grows well without space and air.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.