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What finds its reflection in language, language cannot represent. What expresses itself in language, we cannot express by means of language.

What immense satisfaction it must be to fashion a story like [Maupassant's]! One must say 'fashion' because it is not merely writing, but massing and cutting away like a sculptor, chiseling lean and clear. And to put one's work confidently in the crucible of Time; to know that in six perfect pages is the finest form of one's idea: This satisfaction is the only true reward of the artist, and this his highest possible joy on Earth.

What is this thing we call form, and to what extent do we comprehend our own forms? I have a form, surely, as do you, and let us grant that we’re both conscious even though certain philosophers would argue that assertion—fortunately they’re not here. So! Both conscious. But we have imperfect knowledge of our own forms, let alone our own selves—consider the human man, his last self-image formed at the age of twenty-five, surprised by wrinkles on his forehead as he looks in the bathroom mirror. Deathless Kings’ residual physicalities endure long after they’ve become skeletons—and they perform premortem exercises to stem mental fragmentation. You’d be surprised how frequently and how widely mental image and physical form differ.

When an artist is asked to speak about form, you expect something different than when a critic talks about it. Because you think that somewhere between sentences and words, the secret will slip out. I am trying to give you that secret; it isn't a secret at all, but it is building solidly, not using secrets. I had been trying to extend into metaphysical extension; that film is changing, metamorphic; that is, infinite; the idea that the movement of life is totally important rather than a single life. My films were built on an incline, an increase in intensity. I hoped to make a form which was infinite, the changingness of things. I thought I would want to find a total form which conveyed that sense, particularly in reference to an Oriental subject. My impression was: one is walking down a corridor of a hotel. One hears a sound, opens a door and a man is playing; one listens for three minutes and closes the door. The music went on before you opened the door and it continues after you close the door. There was neither beginning nor end. Western music increases in intensity to a climax and then resolves itself. Oriental music is infinite; it goes on and on. The Chinese theater goes on for hours and hours with time for lunch moving scenery, etc.

When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.

When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the ocean is also within us. The idea that things exist outside of our Consciousness is an illusion. Ancient wisdom traditions have known this for centuries, and even modern science has recognized that our sense organs merely receive information and project it within our own minds. Vision does not take place in the eye, but in an area located in the back of the brain. Everything that we perceive to be “out there” is being experienced “in here.

When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves—as ourselves experiencing a different situation and circumstance—we develop a love, a connection, and a unity that allows us to see beyond the various forms, as well as the various ways that someone may act out when they have forgotten their connection and their formless nature. If you look at another in this light, you will see a Being that is just like you, looking back at you

When we look at a tree, we do not see the tree for what it really is. We see how it appears to us on the surface, and we dismiss it as being just another form in the Universe. We fail to realize that the tree is connected to the Universe on every level; that all of nature is expressing itself through that single form. There can be no tree without the earth that it grows from, the sun that gives it energy, the water that nourishes its growth, and the millions of fungi and bacteria fertilizing its soil. Looking deeply into anything in nature, we realize that it is connected to the whole. We see that nature is one seamless web, and the notion that things have an existence of their own is merely an illusion.

When your partner is regularly going out to bars and nightclubs and does not come home until after sunrise, it is likely that they are engaging in some form of infidelity.

Work is a form of service to God.

You are just as connected to the Universe as a finger is to a hand, or as a branch is to a tree. The entire cosmos is expressing itself through your being.

You know that when a group of utility workers are withholding their customer service identification cards, they are likely engaging in some form of illegal activity at your home.

You are not a small and unimportant creature confined to the form of this physical body, contrary to popular belief. At the core of your being you are pure awareness, and this awareness is the same source from which everything in the Universe arises, exists as, and returns to. Consciousness is the dimension of yourself that you have forgotten you are, and of which you long to return to.

You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.

You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.

You know that when a police officer refuses to produce formal identification on request, they are probably engaging in some form of corruption.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

A bike is the world's most used form of transportation

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of the original text.

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms.

A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er.

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

Advanced life-forms, my seweet patootie. Jerks. Both of them.

Advice is a form of nostalgia.

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration, it should be elevated through pure form.

A form of self-delusion.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

After all, if it comes to that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our consciousness.

Alix [MacKenzie] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to [Joan] Miró as opposed to my more static exploration of space.

agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.

Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.