Love of consciousness evokes
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity. G. I. Gurdjieff
Quotes for All
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity. G. I. Gurdjieff
The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness … Read more
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music. Eric Hoffer
Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence. Frederick Lenz
We don’t always walk from one state of mind into another. We might just oscillate back and forth for a whole lifetime within the polarities of a certain state of mind. Frederick Lenz
Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to ‘develop the heart. David Steindl-Rast
As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as an attribute of the world, is always there. It is something other than the absence … Read more
Angels and demons were identical–interchangeable archetypes–all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer. Dan Brown
How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and … Read more
Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me. I had learned in the meanwhile that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because … Read more