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Quotes About Creation

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
~ Pablo Picasso
I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else."-Pablo Picasso- read 6/3/17
~ Pablo Picasso
To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
~ Pablo Picasso
A Truer, Grander Vision "You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." —
~ Pam Grout
Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance. You yourself, either now or in the past (including the past of former lives), have created all opportunities that arise in your path. Since you have earned them, use them to the best advantage.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
structure of creation. Nature herself is maya; natural science must perforce
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Protection of the cow means protection of the whole dumb creation of God. The appeal of the lower order of creation is all the more forceful because it is speechless." 6
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Present, past, future, no more for me, But ever-present, all-flowing I, I, everywhere. Planets, stars, stardust, earth, Volcanic bursts of doomsday cataclysms, Creation's molding furnace, Glaciers of silent x-rays, burning electron floods, Thoughts of all men, past, present, to come, Every blade of grass, myself, mankind, Each particle of universal dust, Anger, greed, good, bad, salvation, lust, I swallowed, transmuted all Into a vast ocean of blood of my own one Being!
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The law of miracles is operable by any man who has realized that the essence of creation is light. A master is able to employ his divine knowledge of light phenomena to project instantly into perceptible manifestation the ubiquitous light atoms. The actual form of the projection (whatever it be: a tree, a medicine, a human body) is determined by the yogi's wish and by his power of will and of visualisation. At
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Why the ancient rishis selected the cow for apotheosis is obvious to me. The cow in India was the best comparison; she was the giver of plenty. Not only did she give milk, but she also made agriculture possible. The cow is a poem of pity; one reads pity in the gentle animal. She is the second mother to millions of mankind. Protection of the cow means protection of the whole dumb creation of God.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Christ is God's Infinite Intelligence that is present in all creation. The Infinite Christ is the "only begotten son" of God the Father, the only pure Reflection of Spirit in the created realm. That Universal Intelligence, the Kutastha Chaitanya or Krishna Consciousness of the Hindu scriptures, was fully manifested in the incarnation of Jesus, Krishna, and other divine ones; and it can be manifested also in your consciousness.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
It is often forgotten that He who has surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has also implanted in us the desire to question and understand.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
He who has surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has also implanted in us the desire to question and understand.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
All creation is nothing but Spirit, seemingly and temporarily diversified by Spirit's creative vibratory activity
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
A medida que silenciaba los dos tumultos naturales, podía contemplar las multitudinarias olas de la creación diluirse en un reluciente océano, lo mismo que las olas del mar, cuando pasa la tormenta, se disuelven serenamente y retornan a la unidad.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The earth's diurnal cycle, from light to darkness and vice versa, is a constant reminder to man of creation's involvement in maya or oppositional states. (The transitional or equilibrated periods of the day, dawn and dusk, are therefore considered auspicious for meditation.) Rending the dual-textured veil of maya, the yogi perceives the transcendent Unity.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Any word spoken with clear realization and deep concentration has a materialising value.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The yogi [...] sees the universe as the Lord created it: an essentially undifferentiated mass of light.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The law of miracles is operable by any man who has realized that the essence of creation is light. A master is able to employ his divine knowledge of light phenomena to project instantly into perceptible manifestation the ubiquitous light atoms. The actual form of the projection (whatever it be: a tree, a medicine, a human body) is determined by the yogi's wish and by his power of will and of visualization.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Let there be light! And there was light.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The tragedy of death is unreal... Children of light; they will not sleep forever in delusion [in the physical world of maya illusions]. [...] Creation is only a vast motion picture; and not in it, but beyond it, lies [one's] own reality.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Each man is a part of the Creator, or Cosmic Man; he has a heavenly body as well as one of earth.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
A man of realisation does not perform any miracle until he receives an inward sanction," Master explained. "God does not wish the secrets of His creation revealed promiscuously. Also, every individual in the world has inalienable rights to his free will. A saint will not encroach upon that independence.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
My guru, awake in God, knew this world to be nothing but an objectivized dream of the Creator.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda