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Quotes About Unfolding

The spaces that humans allow to contain them have their own history - albeit a history that has never been told, and whose heroes are eo ipso not humans themselves, but rather the topoi and spheres as whose function humans flourish, and from which they fall if their unfolding fails.
~ Peter Sloterdijk
W]hat seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story is really going on. [...] [F]or the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others. Things are constantly unfolding on different levels.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Your eagerness betrays your patina of somber patience. Your desire unfolds with but a gentle touch.
~ A.E. Samaan
Don't blurt out your theme. Let it emerge from the story.
~ Aaron Shepard
Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.
~ Adele Griffin
Nothing can be done but by inches. I write out my life hour by hour, word by word . . . imagining the existence of something uncreated this poem our lives.
~ Adrienne Rich
In film and theater, you know the story and the journey from beginning to end, but with TV, you can keep peeling away layers and exploring a new world each week.
~ Rachel Boston
No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Love at first has nothing to do with unfolding, abandon and uniting with another person (for what would be the sense in a union of what is unrefined and unfinished, still second order?); for the individual it is a grand opportunity to mature, to become something in himself, to become a world, to become a world in himself for another's sake; it is a great immoderate demand made upon the self, something that singles him out and summons him to vast designs.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
If we allow an encounter with a given thing to be shaped by this expectation that it may last, every such experience will be spoiled and falsified, and ultimately it will be prevented from unfolding its most proper and authentic potential and fertility.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series. Every general law only a particular fact of some more general law presently to disclose itself. There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us. The
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition;
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
~ Ram Dass
I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
~ Ram Dass
The infinite intelligence, which gave me this desire leads, guides, and reveals to me the perfect plan for the unfolding of my desire. I know the deeper wisdom of my subconscious is now responding, and what I feel and claim within is expressed in the without There is a balance, equilibrium, and equanimity.
~ Joseph Murphy
seed deposited in the soil attracts to itself everything necessary for its unfolding, and that all he had to do was to take a lesson from the seed and deposit the required idea in his subconscious mind.
~ Joseph Murphy
The law of life is the law of growth;
~ Joseph Murphy
Time and how are the mysterious elements of any life.
~ Joy Harjo
You must learn to see the world as something which is evolving and becoming; not as a finished work.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Enlightenment does not end with an attainment; it is a continuous unfolding.
~ David A. Cooper
along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.
~ David Abram
The unfolding over time of a great idea is like the growth of a fractal crystal, allowing details and refinements to multiply endlessly — but only in ever-increasing scale.
~ David Bayles
Few are inclined to imagine that apparently minor changes in climate or technology or some other variable can somehow be responsible for severing connections to the world of their fathers. The Romans were reluctant to acknowledge the changes unfolding around them. So are we.
~ James Dale Davidson