Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, lies your calling.
Aristotle
Time is a human invention to separate this thing from that thing.
When we remember that there is only One Thing,
we have arrived at our true state ... timelessness.
Omar Khayyam
where the answers we seek lie within the temples of our minds.
~ Ellie Crystal ~
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.
Wisely improve the present. It is thine.
Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick - How to Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
The sky is waiting to be touched by the hand of fabulous childhood.
Edmond Vandercammen
There are many levels of creation inside the box.
Which is the true reality? Which is the only reality of consequence?
Ellie Crystal
It is in the nature of the human experience to seek drama.
Ellie Crystal
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity:
they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Charlotte Bronte
Sensations are modifications of our being.
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
Choice, not chance, determines destiny.
Ellie Crystal
Life is magic. The way nature works seems to be quite magical.
Jonas Salk
The ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings
forever remains locked in the seed.
Hal Bosland
We all need to have a creative outlet, a window or space,
so we don't lose track of ourselves.
Norman Fischer
Humanity is evolving out of the box and into the light of creation.
Ellie Crystal
Railway stations are our gates to the glorious and unknown.
Through them we pass into adventure and sunshine.
E. M. Forester
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our
breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Dance is communication between body and soul,
to express what is too deep to find in words.
Ruth Dennison
When one door closes another door opens;
but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,
that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
There is always one moment in life when the door opens,
our fears disappear, and we embrace the future.
Books open the doors to other realities, that will one day manifest.
Ellie Crystal
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things,
because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who
look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching
for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
Eugene O'Neill
Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
Life must be lived as play.
Plato (427 - 347 BC)
Man does not cease to play when he grows old;
he grows old when he ceases to play.
George Bernard Shaw
Every gentleman plays billiards,
but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.
Thomas Jefferson
There are six-million shots in the game of pool.
Albert Einstein
Take your best shot!
Ellie Crystal
One film will come upon the scene
that will contain the fingerprints of creations
at which time all of humanity shall be enlightened.
Ellie Crystal
All of our experiences are stepping stones into the light.
Ellie Crystal
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams
The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do,
seeking purpose.
John Burroughs
All that we see is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
Many times, from something small, comes something great.
Nowhere so busy is the workman,
And yet he seemed busier than he was.
There's never a new fashion, for it is all old.
Geoffrey Chaucer
This was love at first sight, love everlasting,
a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far
as it could be a matter of conscious awareness;
it took entire possession of him, and he understood,
with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas Mann
In order to create there must be a dynamic force,
and what force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky
In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws,
our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences.
Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.
Ray Bradburry
He who experiences the unity of life, sees his own Self in all beings,
and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
Buddha
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield.
As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding
will overcome whatever is rigid and hard.
This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.)
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations
Faith Baldwin
One need only follow the patterns and the tones of the Singer.
Ellie Crystal
Since the beginning of life as we know it,
the sea has supported our planet.
From it has come the air we breath,
the food we eat and the water we drink.
In short, the sea has given us life.
Perhaps it's time we returned the favor.
Bob Talbot
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity,
between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
Hermann Hesse
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
18,000 years ago ice sheets covered large areas of land Animation & Text
When one door closes another door opens;
but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the
closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.
But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan
Man can learn nothing except by going
from the known to the unknown.
Claude Bernard
In the creational sphere of life; one seeks balance
from the electromagnetic polarities of its creation.
Ellie Crystal
If we take quantum theory seriously as a picture of what's
really going on, each measurement does more than disturb:
it profoundly reshapes the very fabric of reality.
Nick Herbert
Clairvoyance brings images to the screen in your mind
sometimes in black and white, and other times in living color.
Alex Carrel
How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence?
Benjamin Disraeli
If a man insisted always on being serious,
and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation,
he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC)
There is no royal road to geometry.
There is no royal road to geometry.
Euclid
The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics,
the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures,
without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.
Michael Kline
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision
for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Man is a rope stretched between the animal
and the Superman,
a rope over an abyss.
Friedrich Nietzsche
New gene pools are generated in every generation,
and evolution takes place because the successful individuals
produced by these gene pools
give rise to the next generation.
Ernst Mayr Quotes
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity,
we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second
time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Philosophy of tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it
expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature.
Okakura Kakauzo The Book of Tea
The sword conquers for a time, but the spirit conquers forever!
Sholem Asch
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever
you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing
to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough
to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
Vance Havner
Be assured that just as an hour is only part of a day,
just as life on Earth is only part of eternity.
C. L. Allen
My studies of alchemy may seem obscure and baffle many people,
but taken symbolically the symbolic gold of great worth, or the transforming Philosopher's Stone
'lapis philosophorum' hunted for centuries by the alchemists - is to be found in man.
Carl Jung