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Linda Explaining Julian's "Emerging Dimensions" Art
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Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
- Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
"A wheel or circle has been a sacred symbol to many cultures over time. It can be found in the temples of Egypt, in the land of the Incas, represented in the Celtic rites as in Stonehenge, and in countless other peoples. The Anasazi of the South Western United States built their temples, or Kivas, in circular form. Early Native Americans also used the circle for their teepees, their camps, and daily rituals. The importance is not the circle itself, but what it represented-change. The circle shown in the Medicine Wheel is used to represent the changing cycle of the seasons. This could literally mean the weather, the seasons of life (birth, mid-age, old age), or the changes surrounding the development of projects."- Mark Dodich
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. Maynard J. Keenan
"The circle is perhaps the most ancient of mystical symbols and the most universal of all dances. It is the earth and the sun in eternal movement, an unbroken, unbent line symbolizing continuity and eternity. The circle dance represents wholeness. The dance brings life full circle."- Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance
"A Sacred Circle is a group of people who sit in a circle, in the literal and relational sense, and honor the sacredness of their divine nature as individuals and as a group. Not only does each participant take guidance individually by listening to the “inner voice within”, but this guidance is offered to the center of the circle and comes back from it in an augmented resonant manner. Each guidance, each soul and life experience, when offered to the center, begins to resonate with one another and creates what we experience as a resonant field. The resonant field is the living whole that radiates back toward each of us. It operates as a source of light that illuminates our individual blind spots, makes us grow and find clarity. Then we are in the situation of being able to offer back more and more resonant experience to the Center, and so on. The resonant field works definitely like a complex dynamic system. It creates new layers of reality that transcend and include our individual reality. It offers us more freedom than ever, we are given the opportunity to perform our soul mission and honor the dharma."- The Transitioner: Sacred Circles
A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one. - Isaac D'Israeli, Miscellanies
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays--Circles As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
"The circle is celebrated in the form of the nimbus or halo depicted around the heads of saints. Ritual dance is invariably performed in a circle whether it be as a group or individually such as the sufi’s whirling dervish. The dwelling places of indigenous people were sacred habitats. From yurts to tipis to igloos to kivas, the circle formed the basis of their design. Sacred architecture from Stonehenge to the domes of cathedrals, temples and shrines and basilicas are testaments to the reverence and importance of the simplest of all geometric forms, the circle. Even the cosmic dance of the Hindu god, Shiva, is performed within a circle of flames.- Sacred Circle
As on the smooth expanse of crystal lakes The sinking stone at first a circle makes; The trembling surface by the motion stirr'd, Spreads in a second circle, then a third; Wide, and more wide, the floating rings advance, Fill all the watery plain, and to the margin dance. - Alexander Pope, Temple of Fame
To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human beings and animals have no corners. With us, the circle stands for togetherness of people who sit with one another around the campfire, relatives and friends united in peace while the sacred pipe passes from hand to hand. To us this is beautiful and fitting, symbol and reality at the same time, expressing the harmony of life and nature."- John Fire Lame Deer, Richard Erdoes, Lame Deer Seeker of Visions
“The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L’Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles” - John Mason Brown – American literary critic, 1900 – 1969
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
- Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
“Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don’t waste energy! Face life now!” - author unknown
“If you love someone, put their name in a circle; because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.” - Anonymous
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