“But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.” MindDoeBodyMovingFourAwarenessMaterialsElementsStonesPlantFour Elements Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.” PersonsUsedWaterFiveFourRocksStrangeMaterialsMountainElementsRedStonesBlueGreenPaintSevenTreasureCakeJewelsRiceWondrousRice Cakes Author:Dogen
“Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.” IfsArtistWorstElementsStonesAbandonedSplitsExplosionsFiringDebris Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.” RealityTurnsImaginationFantasyAirElementsStonesCrucialLiquidVeniceIgnite Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
“Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.” WantShouldActionFaithWaterBuildingElementsStonesBasesFoundationVery GoodFishesGood Actions Author:Owen Feltham
“In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.” TwoLeftWaterSecretBehindsShapesElementsStonesCrossesPrimariesDesertAbundanceExposedCanvasLeft BehindRarityVegetationFerocity Author:Craig Childs
“The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.” WayWaterFireAirElementsMassStonesWeightWoodsProportionBitternessDecayBurnedCompositionWormsFloatsDenseSapIgniteMoisture Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.” LongIdeasCuttingRevolutionElementsStonesAncientTemplesTechnologicalColumnsColonyIndustrial RevolutionImpetusNorth Africa Author:Martin Filler
“We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These Games are preparing us to play a 60-minutes game and preparing us for the gold-medal game.” TwoDifferentPlayGamesMinutesElementsStonesGoldHockeyPreparingMedalGold MedalsStepping Stones Author:Cherie Piper
“Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility.” MindIdeasWholeRunningLastsSuccessScienceResultsKnownSuccessfulPossibilityElementsAchievementResourcesStonesTestsMethodExtraordinaryIncrediblesStartingListsTrialsExperimentsCombinationInvestigationCluePersistentVigorCompletingExponents Author:Nikola Tesla