A Quote by John de Ruiter

The formless cannot be based on the form. The form needs to be based on the formless.

John de Ruiter

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John de Ruiter
Canadian - Author
Born: 1959

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

Swami Vivekananda

In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it.

Sun Tzu

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

Frank Herbert

From form to formless and from finite to infinite

Bruce Lee

It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.

Catherine Ponder

Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.

Herbert Read

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively.

Tara Brach

Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.

Swami Vivekananda

When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.

Bruce Lee

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Tantric Zen is the original Zen, Zen without rules, Zen without form. Zen can certainly take rules and form. So Tantric Zen might have some rules and form, but it would remain formless even though it had rules and form.

Frederick Lenz

The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.

Ramana Maharshi

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

Charles Ives

Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form...without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one's form is to live a death...the truth is the light and light is the truth.

Ralph Ellison

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