The universality of the mandala is in its one constant, the principle of center.
The center is the beginning of the mandala as it is the beginning of all forms and of all processes, including the extensions of form into time . . .
The center is symbolic of the eternal potential.
From the same inexhaustible source all seeds grow and develop,
all cells realize their functions — there is a structural law,
a cosmic principle by which perceptible forms are sustained
and which governs the processes of transformation in all things.
This can be realized only because the center principle manifests itself through man
in the same ways as it does through a flower or a star;
in it we may discover our cosmic commonality — our community . . .
At the core, each man is the center of his own compass and experiences,
his own cardinal points, North, South, East and West.
-Jose Arguelles
The center is the beginning of the mandala as it is the beginning of all forms and of all processes, including the extensions of form into time . . .
The center is symbolic of the eternal potential.
From the same inexhaustible source all seeds grow and develop,
all cells realize their functions — there is a structural law,
a cosmic principle by which perceptible forms are sustained
and which governs the processes of transformation in all things.
This can be realized only because the center principle manifests itself through man
in the same ways as it does through a flower or a star;
in it we may discover our cosmic commonality — our community . . .
At the core, each man is the center of his own compass and experiences,
his own cardinal points, North, South, East and West.
-Jose Arguelles
Find out your Centre.
Dwell always in this Centre.
This Centre is Atma or your inner most Self.
-Sivananda
Dwell always in this Centre.
This Centre is Atma or your inner most Self.
-Sivananda
Achieving a center,
being grounded in oneself,
is about the highest state a human being can achieve.
-Fritz Perls
being grounded in oneself,
is about the highest state a human being can achieve.
-Fritz Perls
Unless you find paradise at your own center,
there is not the smallest chance
That you may enter.
-Angelus Silesius
there is not the smallest chance
That you may enter.
-Angelus Silesius
The center is everywhere.
Bent is the path of eternity.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Placed at the centre of the 'cosmic wheel',
the perfect sage moves it invisibly,
by his mere presence,
without sharing in its movement,
and without having to concern himself
with exercising any action whatever.
-Rene Guenon
the perfect sage moves it invisibly,
by his mere presence,
without sharing in its movement,
and without having to concern himself
with exercising any action whatever.
-Rene Guenon
Permanently established at the centre of all things,
he "is unto himself his own law",
because his will is one with the universal Will
(the "Will of Heaven"of the Far-Eastern tradition,
which effectively manifests itself at the very point where that being resides);
he has obtained the "Great Peace",
which is none other than the "Divine Presence"
(Es-Sakinah, the immanence of the Divinity
at that point which is the "Centre of the World");
being identified, by his own unification, with the principal unity itself,
he sees unity in all things and all things in unity,
in the absolute simultaneity of the Eternal Present.
-Rene Guenon
