Quotes About Limitation

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

God has denied you nothing. Only you can deny yourself.

Man] is equally incapable of seeing the Nothing from which he was made, and the Infinite in which he is swallowed up.

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

We mistake the horizon we see for the parameters of the world.

Accept that infinite occurrences of the universe cannot be fathomed by the finite human mind.

Brahma is God who creates all forms, hence is called the creator; but he has not yet found the perfect form and is still yearning and searching, making him unworthy of worship. Vishnu is God who has realised that no form is perfect and so works with the limited forms. This is why he is called the preserver and is worshipped in various forms. Shiva is God who breaks free from all forms, having found all of them limited, hence he is the destroyer who is worshipped as the linga.

I am the creator of my world and so are you. We can widen our world by breaking free from the maze of expectations. We can shrink our world by entrapping ourselves with expectations.

Hindu thought, however, looks at truth quantitatively: everyone has access to a slice (bhaga); the one who sees all slices of truth is bhaga-van. Limited

Civilization comes into being when the small fish is rescued from the big fish; civilization comes to an end when the fish keeps growing bigger than its pond.

Failure to see the other stopped the mind from expanding. It started contracting, crumpling and getting knotted. It became all about me and mine, not you and yours. Limitless Brahmana thus became the limited Brahma.

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In attacking these readings, Dyson was attacking the very reason for the group; in limiting the participation of one of its members, Dyson eroded its spirit. It is one thing to criticize an author. It is another to shut him down. There is a difference between conflict and contempt. Dyson delivered an axe blow to the root of the tree. The Inklings were shaken, and they never quite recovered.

How did anyone see the stars and not wish for more than the confinement they were born to?

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Despite your best efforts and intentions, there's a limited reservoir to fellowship before you begin to rely solely on the vapors of nostalgia.

Many people do not want to forfeit their fears. Fear is the only tool they know.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

Life in this world is limited. Never be in the least bit afraid!

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.