Planes Quotes - Page 38

• But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

  Francisco Goya

  Nature, Eye, Details

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• There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Faith, Spiritual, Spiritual Life

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• When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.

  Aristide Maillol

  Next, Tone, Imitation

  "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 407, 1972.

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• The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.

  Herbert Read

  Two, Luxury, Space

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• We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social plane we have an India based on the principles of graded inequality, which means elevation for some and degradation for others. On the economic plane we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Mean, Two, Poverty

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• Unfortunately most accidents are preventable. Planes don't fall out of the sky unless something is wrong.

  Mary Schiavo

  Fall, Sky, Accidents

  "FAA inspector: White House didn't force her out". www.cnn.com. July 9, 1996.

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• There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.

  Ellen MacArthur

  Weather, Worry, Flying

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• I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.

  Lily Cole

  Book, Opportunity, Journey

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• Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.

  Gyorgy Kepes

  Sight, Together, Figures

  Gyorgy Kepes (1995). “Language of Vision”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

  Orson Welles

  Travel, Journey, Emotional

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• It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Spiritual, Mind

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• I mean you think about the guy, the Nigerian guy, who was going to blow up the plane. He was wearing a pair of Fruit of the Lunatic. ... Guy was not too bright. He said that the reason he became a suicide bomber was to work his way up in the al Qaeda organization.

  David Letterman

  Suicide, Mean, Blow

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• Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wise, Mother, Children

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.125, Cornell University Press

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• Enlightenment occurs when your mind merges with nirvana, with what Tibetans call the Dharmakaya, the clear light of reality, which is the highest plane of transcendental wisdom and perfect understanding.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Light

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• An enlightened teacher has so much power that when they meditate, a tremendous aura builds up around them. The aura will open up your aura and increase it. You will move into a higher plane of knowledge. You will gain a new view of the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Moving, Views

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• The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that they are really going into the planes of light and not fooling themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Light, Practice

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• A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced teacher, they have somehow traveled inwardly along the astral planes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Firsts, Enlightened

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• You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're asleep. These are the secret teachings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

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• It is harder to develop your occult or psychic body when you are dead because all planes meet in the physical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Psychics, Body

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• Personal power is the ability to go into other planes, to cross that threshold from one dimension to another. Why do that? Because it is there to do; knowledge, power, and beauty lie in those other worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Power, Other Worlds

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• The future is certain for those who follow dharma. Those who don't follow dharma are pushed back again and again into the net of rebirth. They are drawn back to the same planes of attention, or lower. It could happen to you!

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Attention, Rebirth

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• One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how effective it is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Self

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• Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purity, Form

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• Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

  Stanislaw Lem

  Humorous, Fields, Fairy

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Thinking, Swings

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