Contraction Quotes

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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. — Michel de Montaigne
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental,… — Thaddeus Golas
The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a… — Ernest Starling
Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other… — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture… — Richard Serra
I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall. — Judith Jamison
That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet, — LeBron James
In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is… — Adyashanti
Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad.Â That causes an emotional contraction.Â When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power… — Eckhart Tolle
As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply… — Ken Wilber
Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology. — Serge Haroche
Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time. — Julian Smith
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. — Ibrahim Babangida
Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize… — Gary Zukav
When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy — Nick Clegg
Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a… — Wayne Muller
I also learned that you didnâ€™t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You werenâ€™t born a person of cringe and contraction.… — Anne Lamott

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