Geomancy Quotes

“Nothing truly beautiful without its element of strangeness, nothing whole without its own incongruity, these (Jacksonville-area pioneer house) ruins sand up from the earth in sacred conjunction. These ruins conjoin the earth and the manmade, moving from one to the other and back again. The Browards built their house out of shell and limestone, and limestone forms naturally from the shells and skeletons of miniscule sea creatures over great periods of time. The Browards shaped the earth upright toward the sky. THey shaped it with doorframes and windows and chimneys. THey shaped the earth up around them as a shelter. But shaped earth was always the earth. Now the walls fall back down and join once again the ground, taken over by roots of ferns and weeds and small trees. The house was always the ground, only contained in an upward suspension. The house was always the earth, but brought up into architecture, and now the house that was always the earth crumbles back into the earth and nourishes new green things -- dog fennel and morning glories and palmettoes and cabbage palms and cedars. A true symbol of sacredness of the earth is earth's reclaiming of human ingenuity.”
― Tim Gilmore This Kind of City Ghost stories and psychological landscapes

“Unfortunately, Feng Shui has mingled with superstition. Luckily, it’s easy to expose myths. Don’t think ‘things’, think ‘energy’.”
― Stefan Emunds

“Most human beings come into the world and leave it with nothing to show they ever lived.”
― Tim Gilmore

“The five elements are energies, not things. In Hinduism, they are known as the five tattvas. Psychic people can see them and their geometric forms.”
― Stefan Emunds, Feng Shui 101 Easy And Fun: Cultivate Positive Vibes

“Behind a barbed-wire fence, a dirt road disappears into the distance in the pine trees and corners. Lost, dead roads, no ends or remaining purposes, power lines now dead and sagging and forgotten, grown high in weeds and young trees. The trees have entirely encased a speed limit sign, strange sight, nothing so pointless as a speed limit sign in the midst of dense woods, pointless and beautifully so.”
― Tim Gilmore This Kind of City Ghost stories and psychological landscapes

“If the creek predates the city deep in time, then is it right to identify the creek solely with the city? The city has forgotten the creek, as it's forgotten those who walk its side, but the creek didn't need to be known all that long time before the city ever was. Maybe now Hogan's Creek is too steeped in history to claim an independence grounded in prehistory, because the city has too deeply poisoned it for far too long. Then again, there was all that time the creek flowed and had no name. Without a name you belong solely to yourself.”
― Tim Gilmore

“We don’t want to swim against cosmic currents, do we?”
― Stefan Emunds, Feng Shui 101 Easy And Fun: Cultivate Positive Vibes

“Always keep in mind that the strongest factor of your Feng Shui is you.”
― Stefan Emunds, Feng Shui 101 Easy And Fun: Cultivate Positive Vibes

“Feng Shui is the perfect tool for breaking vicious circles.”
― Stefan Emunds, Feng Shui 101 Easy And Fun: Cultivate Positive Vibes

“Feng Shui is all about the subconscious interaction between planetary and mental energies.”
― Stefan Emunds, Feng Shui 101 Easy And Fun: Cultivate Positive Vibes

“We have built our houses between what is fluid and what is fixed.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs