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The Way of Creation & Destruction
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Way of Creation & Destruction
Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.
- Marion Woodman
Joy is the mainspring in the whole
Of endless Nature's calm rotation.
Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll
In the great Time-piece of Creation.
- Schiller in Hymn to Joy
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.
- Kabb.allah
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot ...
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other.
- Sigmund Freud
Critical Tasks
The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation. The realization of Divine love, the universal consciousness, is our responsibility to the creator.
- Morihei Ueshiba in The Spiritual Foundations of Aikido
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
- Anais Nin
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
- Michael Bridge
Challenges
To be creative means to be in love with Life.
You can be creative only if you love Life enough that you want to
enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it,
a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
- Osho
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
- Pablo Picasso
There is no ecstasy like that of creation.
- Louis Auchincloss
I am Baron Humbert von Gikkengen. The artisan who created me gave me that title.
- The Cat Returns (anime movie quote) {King = Kin.G = Gik.King.eN}
Baron: Thank you. In case you haven;t noticed you're now in a world quite different from your own. This is a refuge for creations. Whenever someone creates something with all their heart, then that creation is given a soul. You see. Like me and Toto here ... That's Toto. A stone statue with a soul.
- The Cat Returns (anime movie quote)
