“A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they've been around since the Stone Age.” MightAgeEnergyForceLinesFieldsStonesBritainTrailsStone Age Author:Stephen R. Lawhead
“As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.” TryingEnergyRocksStonesAppearanceSurfaceIceInternalsLeafsBeneath The Surface Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.” MindEarthEnergyHeavenDivineStonesFoundationSettlingOperationsVisibleLiftingPillarsOmnipotence Book:Modern Painters Source: Modern Painters
“The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.” IfsMindWellsRealRealityAgeUniverseEnergyProcessPerceptionFlowStonesConnectionsEdgesIntellectScreensFleshSensesEndlessConsistentCosmicSteelMysticalFluxShimmerCosmic Energy Author:Peter Matthiessen
“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.” ThinkingMayActionHateEnergyTermViolenceHeroConceptsStonesContraryReactionsCrueltyRanSpiteTwinsNihilismIndicationDeanVelvetExteriorUnderstand MeVehementAntiheroesWild OneNobody Understands Me Author:Lester Bangs