Quotes About Primordial

Water represents to me, the beginnings of life, it is where we come from in our most primordial sense. It relates to some of our deepest subconscious thinking - it's a force we can't really see or understand, we just get glimpses of. But it's a part of us all.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

The primordial Torah was written with black fire on white fire. It was fire mixed with fire, cut from fire, given from fire.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

technology was unfamiliar territory for me. See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

You have to understand – there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the hand of God. You watch the slow lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heat, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

If the principle of impurity is admitted, then impurity is everywhere. There are worms in cow dung and in wood. Many though the grains of corn be, there is none of them which does not contain life. There was life in the primordial waters from which vegetation came. How can impurity be warded off? It is to be found in every kitchen. Nanak says, pollution is not removed in this way [through rituals]. It is washed away by knowledge of God. (AG 472)

In quei giorni e in quei luoghi, poco dopo il passaggio de fronte, un vento alto spirava sulla faccia della terra: il mondo intorno a noi sembrava ritornato al Caos primigenio, e brulicava di esemplari umani scaleni, difettivi, abnormi; e ciascuno di essi si agitava in moti ciechi o deliberati, in ricerca affannosa della propria sede, della propria sfera, come praticamente si narra delle particelle dei quattro elementi nelle cosmogonie degli antichi.

abiogenesis

It implies also that there was a souring of "the earth's sweet being in the beginning." Long ago there occurred a besmirching of primordial innocence that has turned the history of human life and the practice of virtue into a project of restoration rather than one of joining ourselves to a universe that is still becoming more.

My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric. That's exactly what she says: telluric

The primordial purity of mind is of the nature of space; There is nothing one can receive or reject.

Just as a crow that flies from a sail returns to it after circling and soaring, so a passionate mind that pursues the trail of thought returns to the primordial purity of mind.

another divinity is present at this moment of origins, namely Tartarus.

to name them in order of appearance) Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros. Nothing else, as yet, has come into existence.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

La única forma lógica de servir a la «fuerza» primigenia era mediante el «proceso». La idea consistía en contribuir a impulsar el proceso hasta el último objetivo de la fuerza: la homogeneidad cultural, política, social y económica de las naciones de la Tierra.

Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world—or the last.

And so without our primordial attachments to others, what would we be? Evidently, we would be the players of a game, one that resembled a giant chess match, with our fellow human beings as the rooks, the knights, and the pawns. For this is the essence of sociopathic behavior, and desire.

Such unity and completeness of humankind was lost, the Gospel of Philip declares, in the separation of Adam and Eve. Originally Adam was androgynous, but the fall from primordial oneness allowed humankind to slip into mortality and death. The Gospel of Philip states, "If the female had not separated from the male, the female and the male would not have died. The separation of male and female was the beginning of death.

Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.

Nature is the primordial--that is, the nonconstructed, the noninstituted; hence the idea of an eternity of nature (the eternal return), of a solidity. Nature is an enigmatic object, an object that is not an object at all; it is not really set out in front of us. It is our soil --not what is in front of us, facing us, but rather, that which carries us.

The actions in which I habitually engage incorporate their instruments and make them participate in the original structure of my own body. Moreover, my own body is the primordial habit, the one that conditions all others and by which they can be understood.

Your whole world may be likened to solidified space mirroring the beliefs and acceptances as projected by a formless, faceless presence, namely, I AM. Reduce the whole to its primordial substance and nothing would remain but you, a dimensionless presence, the conceiver.