“The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.” MindMayDoeIdeasPlayGodPainEnjoyInvolvedNegativeAspectLaborAll ThingsAbsolutesEmbraceUnityEarnestnessPlatitudesTruism Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“The body has a wisdom of its own. However, slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a foundation, a basis of knowing that gives confidence to the ego. To reach its wisdom requires absolute concentration: dropping the mind into the body, breathing into whatever is ready to be released, and allowing the process of expression until the negative dammed up energy is out, making room for the positive energy, genuine Light, to flood in.” GivingMindBodyLightEnergyProcessRoomsKnowingReadyExpressionEgoNegativeBasesAbsolutesFoundationGenuineBreathingConcentrationAllowingFloodDroppingPositive Energy Author:Marion Woodman
“The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it.” IfsWorldLittlesSaidMomentsHappenedLateNegativeUltimateAbsolutesConvictionToo LateSubtle Book:Trask: A Novel Source: Trask: A Novel
“Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.” IfsFirstsLittlesPersonsSeemsAsksGivenJusticeMoralPrinciplesNegativeTreatsAbsolutesCoreCommandAcknowledgeUnconditionalImperativesMoral PrinciplesCommand Not Author:Paul Tillich
“Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.” HumansTwoObjectsNegativeAbsolutesRepeatsIsolationCrucialHuman ExperiencePremises Author:Alfred Korzybski
“Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual.” KindPrinciplesIntellectualNegativeAbsolutesEthicalCreedsAgnosticismValidity Book:Lectures and Essays Source: Lectures and Essays