Contraction Quotes

“Birthing is never easy or without pain, be it a universe, a child, or a fresh start in life. Contraction precedes expansion. Darkness comes before dawn. Joy follows pain. This is the way of things.”
― John Mark Green

“Humanity is a dewdrop on the great tree of the universe. During its brief life span, it absolutely cannot perceive the maturing of the great tree.”
― Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

“Your world is brimming with wonder and mystery. Your thoughts stretch across hundreds of light-years of space and billions of years of time. To you, the Earth is just a speck of dust in the universe. To you, this era is just an instant in time too short to measure. The entire universe seems to exist to satisfy your curiosity and fulfill your existence... I truly envy you. I dreamed of this when I was young, but to enter your world was too difficult.”
― Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

“In Hayek’s monetary theory of the cycle the upswing is generated by monetary expansions that cause an excess of investment over volun- tary saving and a shift in the structure of production toward more time- consuming processes. This structure, created by a depressed money rate of interest, cannot be sustained. Monetary expansion, then, will not pro- duce an everlasting boom, and when the expansion eventually stops, crisis and depression follow. With regard to the sources of monetary expansion, while others like Mises put the blame on the misguided (“inflationist” or “cheap money”) attitude of the monetary authorities, Hayek pointed to the endogenous process of money creation by the banks, in particular in a sys- tem of fractional reserve banking (see, e.g., Hayek 2012a [1933a], chap. 4, vs. Mises 2006b [1928]).”
― Bruce Caldwell, Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

“[T]o end contraction is to transc*end* the ego, which is why so much of the spiritual path is about letting go. The challenge we experience in attempting to let go reveals how much we love to grasp.”
― Andrew Holocek

“Self-consciousness . . . rips us away from the natural state of flow, and we become children of the damned. We choke the life-force energy and fall into self-referential "think-holes" that are deeper and darker than any black hole.”
― Andrew Holocek

“[T]o end contraction is to transc*end* the ego, which is why so much of the spiritual path is about letting go. The challenge we experience in attempting to let go reveals how much we love to grasp.”
― Andrew Holecek, Reverse Meditation: How to Use Your Pain and Most Difficult Emotions as the Doorway to Inner Freedom

“Self-consciousness . . . rips us away from the natural state of flow, and we become children of the damned. We choke the life-force energy and fall into self-referential "think-holes" that are deeper and darker than any black hole.”
― Andrew Holecek, Reverse Meditation: How to Use Your Pain and Most Difficult Emotions as the Doorway to Inner Freedom

“Even if we naively try to explain the immeasurable spaces, energies, and galaxies of the Universe with the so-called dark matter and dark energy, it is hard to comprehend, regardless of all possible physical laws and laws of compression or contraction, that such waste energies can fit into a tiny “spot.” If energy is indestructible, this beginning will prove the opposite based on its smallness. If something can disappear into nothing, it must be “destructible,” regardless of our conceptions.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“If we would, hypothetically, explore the idea of the universe's contraction, the result would be similar to the black hole. Regardless of a much bigger mass of the whole Universe, as ours is, the absolute contraction would lead to the same point at which the black hole reaches maximum density. The point of maximum density is Zero, at which point the Big Bang happens (or the Universe disappears, which is less likely). In this sense, from the point of the result, expansion or contraction of the Universe would lead to almost the same result.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Pulsation: Pulsation is a foundational concept in Reichian therapy that describes the innate, rhythmic expansion and contraction of life energy (orgone) within all living organisms. Reich identified pulsation as the core biological function.”
― Laurence Galian, Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion

“In the vast silence of creation, two streams of orgone flowed. They were the primal dance of life itself, vibrating with a rhythm as ancient as the cosmos. These streams oscillated, throbbed, and surged with a pulse that whispers of eternity. This movement of expansion and contraction is woven into the very fabric of existence. When these streams meet and overlap, they form a harmony that births something greater—a unified force, a living system. This is superimposition, a coming together, a layering of one essence upon another.”
― Laurence Galian, Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion