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Quotes About Unfolding

not get caught in their habitual patterning, to see thoughts for what they are, impersonal events, and instead be the knowing that awareness already is. Then, in that moment at least, we are already free, ready to act with greater clarity and kindness within the constantly changing field of events that is nothing other than life unfolding — not always as we think it should, but definitely as it is.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
While meditation is not all about sitting still on the floor or in a chair, taking your seat both literally and metaphorically is an important element of mindfulness. We could say that in essence, it is a direct and very convenient way to cultivate greater intimacy with your own life unfolding and with your innate capacity to be aware—and to realize how valuable, overlooked, and underappreciated an asset that awareness actually is.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
If I could give you one key, and one key only to more abundant life, I would give you a sense of your own worth, an unshakeable sense of your own dignity as one grounded in the source of the cosmic dance, as one who plays a unique part in the unfolding of the story of the world...
~ Unknown
If I could sum up Life, it would make Life easier, but Life is like an unfolding Novel.
~ Unknown
His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.
~ Marcel Proust
as if the world were a pot on the boil and someone had taken its lid off and let the steam pour up wildly.
~ Unknown
The pleasure of this kind of narrative is not that we think we are reading about the real world (although the story usually does map onto our world fairly closely), but rather that the wings of symmetry are unfolding around us; briefly we are on a planet where, as E.M. Forster says, there are no secrets and human behavior makes sense. I call this 'fiction.
~ Unknown
The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity
~ Catherine Marshall
You can know an animal - or a person, for that matter - in an instant, really, though your understanding can go on unfolding for years.
~ Mark Doty
The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.
~ Jacob Bronowski
And of course I had a camera on the unfolding shitshow on the observation deck.
~ Martha Wells
Everywhere the poems open.
~ Unknown
Mrs. May looked back at her. "Kate," she said after a moment, "stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.
~ Unknown
Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.
~ Unknown
Behavior develops 'in a spiral'...Every motor theme of embryonic life can be considered as a theme that will be elaborated at a higher level in postnatal life.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
And yet we are given a chance as the Side-Octave shews.
~ Maurice Nicoll
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
~ Max Ehrmann
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
~ Max Frisch
Every real story is a never ending story.
~ Michael Ende
We are between stories now. We are evolving from the world dominated by technology and entering the age of biology when there will be a resurgence of interest in learning how to work with the forces of nature rather than against them. It will be a time for following what feels most natural, organic and heartfelt. And it is a time for understanding that we do not enter the world; we grow out of it. The seeds of our own unfolding future lie deep within ourselves.
~ Unknown
The oak sleeps in the acorn; the giant sequoia tree sleeps in its tiny seed; the bird waits in the egg; and the Universe waits to give you everything you want.
~ Unknown
Our lives unfold in space, and time is just an inessential left-over.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Life is all about unfolding of the genes, spilling off of the beans, mistakes of the teens, madness for the leans v/s goodness of the greens, living within and beyond means . Through all this chaos if you remain alert, aware, the master from inside will arise and you shall MickeyMize.
~ Unknown
Christianity is concerned with the unfolding of the Kingdom of God in the world, not the longevity of organizations.
~ Unknown