Quotes About Cycle

Hidden in the works of a mysterious clock are her many deaths, and yet the whole world is piled up before her on a banquet table again today. The timer, broken.

Everything had its purpose. If you waited long enough, a useless thing would become useful again.

Know that birth and death are the crests and trough of One Wave.

Turn your attention to all that is dying and decaying. Look at dead leaves, a lifeless tree, a dead animal. Regard anything that is slowly returning to its constituent elements. Smell the pungent odor of decay. Inhale the effluvium of the dissolution process. The object of this exercise is to know the Earth, not just in its telluric aspect (flower bearing soil), but also in its chthonic aspect. Let death talk to you.

Life is one aspect of death and death is one aspect of life.

Death and Life are merely two sides of the same coin.

Transcend the opposites of death and life; find the Point of Singularity in which the two become One. Know that birth and death are the crest and trough of One Wave.

This sad vicissitude of things.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

It strikes him that there is a beautiful symmetry to life.

A third aspect of Goddess spirituality is the perceptual shift from the death-based sense of existence that underlies patriarchal culture to a regeneration-based awareness, an embrace of life as a cycle of creative rebirths, a dynamic participation in the processes of infinity.

Every moment dies a man, Every moment 1 1/16 is born.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might.

The autumn leaf falls faster than the trees grow faster. (La feuille d'automne descend plus vite - Que les arbres ne grandissent plus vite.)

The same wood used for the coffin and the roof structure. (Au cercueil sert le même bois, et à la charpente du toit)

Water shines under the sun. But the sun dries it. (Eau brille sous soleil - Qui pourtant l'assèche.)

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

All these things, and a thousand like them, came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one

There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement of time. Though days and nights circled as regularly as when time was young, and the evening and morning were the first day, other count of time there was none.

All things ran their course.

Death is Nature's remedy for all things,