Cycles Quote by David Spangler

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.

— David Spangler

“When a new object emerges that satisfies the same purpose as an older one, the older one falls into obsolescence.”

— Koji Suzuki

There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

— E. O. Wilson

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

— Robert Bresson

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.

— Georges Rouault

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone,…

— Marcel Proust

Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply…

— James Hillman

The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages.…

— Ernst Haeckel

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

— Friedrich Nietzsche