Quotes About Creation

The Hole and the Thread A CERTAIN great Sufi was asked about the role and status of some of his predecessors. He said: 'To erect a small building you may first have to excavate a large hole. 'To make a large carpet you may have to start with a single thread. 'When you can see the building or the carpet, your question is answered. 'But when your question is about the hole in the ground and the thread in the hand, you can only be answered in this parable.' * * *

Continuously, in commemoration of the Friend We drank wine, even before the creation of the vine.

Tal como dice Ibn Arabi: La absoluta existencia es la fuente de toda existencia.

Man is the microcosm, creation the macrocosm — the unity. All comes from One.

El hombre es el microcosmos, la creación, el macrocosmos: la unidad. Todo procede del Uno.

Continuamente, en conmemoración del Amigo, bebimos vino, incluso antes de la creación de la vid.

El hábil artesano utiliza el mismo hierro para hacer una herradura que cuando construye un bruñido espejo para el rey.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

The purpose of life is to be restored back to Love, moment to moment. To fulfill this purpose, the individual must acknowledge that he is 100 percent responsible for creating his life the way it is. He must come to see that it is his thoughts that create his life the way it is moment to moment.The problems are not people, places, and situations but rather the thoughts of them. He must come to appreciate that there is no such thing as "out there.

Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless.

Thoughts become things through action. The most powerful tool for creating changes in your life is attention and action. No action means no creation.

I believe these connections are not the result of chance. They are the result of long cherished hopes, choices, and creation.

Thoughts become things? True, but that analysis is not complete - we need to add two more words: thoughts become things through energy.

Because consciousness has no mass and extension, no parts or physical properties, it is Nothing, which on the other hand, can generate the matter and energy of the entire universe.

Your ideas, thoughts and intentions are the seeds of creation, and your attention is the powerful tool that drives energy toward the object or outcome that you want to create. Your positive emotion and passionate action add power to the creative process.

For most people, meditation is associated with relaxation and peace of mind, and these are the practical reasons many people seek out, learn, and practice meditation. However, relaxation and peace of mind are only half of the uses of meditation. The other, probably more important aspect, is for creation.

Imagination should be used not to escape reality, but to create it.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

Bring to the world and to the minds of the peoples that which has been broken or that which has never existed before.

Creation holds in its nature an ability to destruct.

Creation is the only progression there is.

Meet not my creator will I for I am but a mere dot among dots within a dot on a black canvas of dots.