Rudhyar Dane Quotes & Sayings

I don't know if I've ever had a muse per se. I would say that the woman I'm inspired by exists more in my sketchbooks. She exists in my head. — Erdem Moralioglu

I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help. — Lenny Kravitz

Cyclic knowledge is mind - knowledge - however vast and encompassing the mind may be. It is structural knowledge. It is only one mode of knowing; but this mode is all-important in situations where disorder, confusion, and emotional biases prevail. It does not take the place of direct experience, whether at the personal or the spiritual level; but it enables the experiencer to place his experience in a frame of reference which reveals their eonic significance - i.e. the function they occupy within the entire life-span. — Dane Rudhyar

A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again. — Frederic Tudor

The # zodiac sign on the # Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that is, the central potentiality which the person should seek consciously to actualize as a vessel or lens through which the Divine may act. — Dane Rudhyar

The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie. — Karen Marie Moning

The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth. — Dane Rudhyar

Styx has become the mullet of bands. — Steve Almond

Abram, the first Jew was actually an Iraqi. — Matt Chandler

I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us. — Henry David Thoreau

My love is such that rivers cannot quench — Anne Bradstreet

When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be. — Dane Rudhyar

I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do. — Bryan Clay

With more time spent in their mother's presence, Maggie kept topics of conversation to small stuff, seldom ever wanted to dig below the surface, learned from her mother: just be polite, which makes Callie's own facile mental questioning and creative drive, paired with her physical rigidity, all the more oppositional, and, how they dance around serious subjects, laughable. — Justin Bog

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that. — Susan Estrich

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you. — Dane Rudhyar

The # Divine incarnates only in the individual -He or It overshadows the group. The supreme responsibility always lies with the individual. At the exact moment, in the most definite manner Destiny acts and speaks though the individual. — Dane Rudhyar

I was Christmas shopping and ran into a guy on the street. I noticed his watch and said that it runs slow. He said, "So does the guy I stole it from." — David Letterman

Everything is known through its opposite. — Dane Rudhyar

The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore also of one's destiny, for the two are identical. — Dane Rudhyar

The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days preceding the new moon. They are the incorporation of the need of their collectivity for a new birth of spirit. They call down the creative spirit; they summon forth the future-even if it be through their own death — Dane Rudhyar

In order to be really good as a librarian, everything counts towards your work, every play you go see, every concert you hear, every trip you take, everything you read, everything you know. I don't know of another occupation like that. The more you know, the better you're going to be. — Allen Smith

Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to 'image forth'. — Dane Rudhyar

The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality. — Dane Rudhyar

I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it. — Markus Zusak