Quotes About Expansion

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.

Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.

We need all types of knowledge. Why not expand our circle of information?

I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

We are not contained between our hats and boots.

Tremblingly alive to a sense of delight, and unchilled by disappointment, the young heart welcomes every feeling, not simply painful, with a romantic expectation that it will expand into bliss.

But a terror of this nature, as it occupies and expands the mind, and elevates it to high expectation, is purely sublime, and leads us, by a kind of fascination, to seek even the object, from which we appear to shrink

It is not over, this birthing. There are always newer skies into which God can throw stars.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

She looked, and saw the black, domed sky arching over her head. And her heart dilated; she felt the great black dome in her heart. She sat under the stars, worshipping them. Her heart opened and grew vast, until the whole sky with all its stars began to pour into her, a mysterious flood of star-strung darkness. She wanted to receive the night sky into her heart.

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.

Trading posts turned into forts, forts into tribute-collecting points, and tribute-collecting points, by the end of the tenth century, into the largest kingdom in Europe, stretching from the Baltic to the Carpathians.

But in every country occupied by the Red Army, the definition of "fascist" eventually grew broader, expanding to include not only Nazi collaborators but anybody whom the Soviet occupiers and their local allies disliked. In time, the word "fascist," in true Orwellian fashion, was eventually used to describe antifascists who also happened to be anticommunists. And every time the definition was expanded, arrests followed.

But in every country occupied by the Red Army, the definition of 'fascist' eventually grew broader, expanding to include not only Nazi collaborators but anybody whom the Soviet occupiers and their local allies disliked. In time, the word 'fascist,' in true Orwellian fashion, was eventually used to describe antifascists who also happened to be anticommunists. And every time the definition was expanded, arrests followed. p.86

But one consequence of learning anything new is that one usually learns more than anticipated.

I live so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.

why "Six Flags." The six flags refer to the six flags of the countries that flew over Texas in history: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States, and the Confederate States of America. I have no idea if it's the same way now, but the original park had sections that depicted Texas's time under each particular flag, a conceit that would make less sense as the franchise expanded to places outside of Texas that had no similar multinational history.

What we shouldn't do is keep our thoughts inside our heads, inert, unchanged by encounters with the world beyond the skull.

Philosopher Andy Clark, observing the progressive delegation of our mental operations to our devices, has noted that "the mind is just less and less in the head" these days. More than that, the mind must be less and less in the head, and more and more emblazoned on the world, if we are to extend our minds with the minds of others.

Elements of the world outside may effectively act as mental "extensions," allowing us to think in ways our brains could not manage on their own.

Devotion is a spiritual act of egoless surrender. When the Self blinds the spirit too tightly, then devotion expands the blinding by lifting us beyond ourselves. We get the powerful lesson that the Self survives even without constant attention.

how can we know all the possibilities in an infinite universe?

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.