Unseen Quotes - Page 20

• The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Real, Details, Crumbling

  Sri Aurobindo (1970). “Letters on Yoga”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul.

  Sarah Smiley

  Morning, Moving, Soul

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• Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Waiting, Experience, Alive

  "Kandinsky" by Frank Whitford, Paul Hamlyn Ltd, London, 1967.

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• Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Lying, Perfection

  'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)

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• There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

  Lesley Garrett

  Successful, Careers, Singing

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.

  William Blake

  Moving, Sleep, Angel

  William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.162, Princeton University Press

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• For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Warrior, Dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.471

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• By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Clouds, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1492, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Do we want to know whether Christ was resurrected on Easter? God provides the grace to believe in that, but note: Such belief requires less faith in things unseen than believing that the world as we know it evolved out of nothing.

  Marvin Olasky

  Easter, Believe, Grace

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• I believe there is an unseen world all around us.

  Stephen King

  Believe, World, I Believe

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Strong, Powerful

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction as a means of evasion. The perpetual equivocation bears witness to God in the same way as the twisting and turning of a hunted animal indicates the presence of an unseen hunter.

  Georges Bernanos

  Mean, Emotional, Animal

  Georges Bernanos (1999). “The Impostor”, p.152, U of Nebraska Press

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• Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human ken -- the Man bursts, in some unknown manner, the bars of non-existence, and announces with a cry the beginning of his brief life. In the night of non-existence there bursts forth also a little candle, lit by an unseen hand. Mark well its flame: for it is the life of that Man.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Night, Men, Flames

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• All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality .

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.4543, e-artnow

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• As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.

  Ala Bashir

  Reality, Iraq, Mind

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• To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.

  Criss Jami

  Pain, Ideas, Confusion

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• With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

  Bayard Taylor

  Children, Spring, Dark

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.408

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• The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness is an experience of the inner radiance of life, the unseen force that transforms and nourishes the physical world but is never limited by it. There is something more to it, a mystery that is never totally grasped.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Unique, Lenses, Radiance

  Anthony Lawlor (1994). “The Temple in the House: Finding the Sacred in Everyday Architecture”, Tarcher

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• The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.

  Aeschylus

  Struggle, Men, Hot Headed

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• Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

  Matthew Arnold

  Religious, Children, Eye

  Matthew Arnold (1877). “Poems by Matthew Arnold: Lyric, dramatic, and elegiac poems”

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• There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.

  Tahir Shah

  Glasses, Elbows, Razors

  Tahir Shah “Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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• Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  Attributed in "The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" by Henry Parry Liddon, (pp. 147-148), 1868.

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• The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

  Robert Genn

  Sight, Progress, Looks

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.21, Studio Beckett Publications

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• Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.

  Robert Genn

  Tattoo, Girl, Teenage

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• Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people--what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest level of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Dream, Ocean, People

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