34 Mandala Quotes To Inspire Your Day
Here are 34 quotes I am sharing with you on the mandala. Hope you enjoy it and you can subscribe for updates via e-mail.
“Mandala simply means “center and surroundings”. That is what we see in a mandala – a circle that contains a square…The practice of a mandala is simply to place ourselves in the middle of it and learn to relate with the social structure and atmosphere around us as a sacred environment.”
“A mandala is...an integrated structure organized around a unifying center.”
“The center of the mandala is where all our stories are gradually extinguished, and where, in the immediacy of the moment, all feelings can be held and experienced in their purity. In this experience, we grow in spaciousness.”
“Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life.”
“We should learn to see everyday life as mandala - the luminous fringes of experience which radiate spontaneously from the empty nature of our being. The aspects of our mandala are the day-to-day objects of our life experience moving in the dance or play of the universe.”
“The mandala...is a symbolic pattern of light and sound, reflecting the evolution of the universe and the supreme and blissful realization of the soul or higher -Self within the human body/mind - remembering and experiencing itself as a spark of the original pure clear light of consciousness.”
“When there is no more separation between “this” and “that” it is called the still-point of Tao, at the still point in the center of the circle, one sees the infinite in all things.”
“The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.”
“Your consciousness, your soul, is the center of this mandala, and the rest of the universe is the environment surrounding it. The totality of the mandala is unfolding according to an intelligent pattern; it is a dynamic mandala.”
“Mandalas are often described as cosmoplans in both the external sense, as diagrams of a cosmos; and in the internal sense, as guides to the psycho-physical practices of an adherent.”
“In the state of consciousness natural to the field within the mandala - that of Self-realization, or non-duality - such opposites as inner and outer, or subjective and objective, male or female, matter and spirit, are all grasped as connected, married, ultimately unified.”
“Everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening. From this point of view awakening is right at your fingertips continually.”
“That said...the word Mandala is derived from the root Manda, which means essence, energy or spirit, and by adding the suffix la to any Sanskrit word, it becomes the container or vessel for it; thus revealing the Mandala as a container for essence, energy or spirit.”
“The mandala is a map for spiritual transformation.”
“In the infinite mandala of space, all phenomena are easily accommodated. They have space easily and there is still space.”
“The center of the Mandala is the Now-moment, where, through the quality of attention, we constantly create ourselves anew.”
“Making a mandala is a universal activity, a self-integrating ritual.”
“Though mandala means “circle” in Sanskrit, mandalas are more often squares or rectangles, filled with images and geometric figures that symbolize forces of the individual and collective psyche and the flow of energy...”
“We experience the seamless, unimpeded flow of everything that arises and dissolves within the reality-sphere that is the mandala of our own existence. Nothing is out of place; everything gives unique expression to an infinite network of conditions that are implicated in every manifestation from the most miniscule to the most cosmic, from the most insignificant to the most magnificent.”
“Awareness of the mandala may have the potential of changing how we see ourselves, our planet, and perhaps even our own life purpose.”
“We have the symbolism of the mandala and we have the basic principle of the mandala.”
“The mandala is a microcosm within itself, a tiny representation of the universe where myriads points unite and oppose each other to achieve a harmony of peaceful unity.”
“A mandala is “a primary centering tool that maps the psyche’s journey of transformation.”
“The architecture of the mandala represents both the nature of reality and the order of an awakened mind.”
“Our lives can only be seen as a mandala if we include everything, all positive qualities as well as all that we would like to ignore, reject, or distance ourselves from.”
“The pattern found within the mandala can help describe the nature of our being as well as the nature of our cosmos.”
“Sometimes ‘mandala’ is translated as ‘essence container’, a phrase that hints at its psychological and mystical meanings.”
“The study of mandalas often includes contemplating the core of reality, what is at the ‘true center’ of the world in which we live.”
“The mandala principle expresses the experience of seeing the relatedness of all phenomena.”
“I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point — namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the centre. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the centre, to individuation. I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.”
“When our minds are conditioned to live close to the perimeter of the Mandala – away from the Now center – we have a false sense of self and a mistaken view of others that blinds us to their essence and us to our own.”
“Mandalas are used worldwide...as a symbolic representation of the Cosmos as it relates to the Self. The word mandala comes from a Sanskrit root meaning ‘enclosing the essence’.”
“The tibetan word for mandala is kyilkhor. Kyil means ‘center’, khor means ‘fringe’, ‘gestalt’, ‘area around’. ...Things exist interdependently, and that interdependent existence of things happens in the fashion of orderly chaos.”
“A useful image to help us conceptualize the thread of personal unfoldment is the mandala. By mandala I mean a field with a midpoint, such as a sphere with a center. The field is the totality of your experience – your thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions, actions; it is the totality of your life at each moment.The center is where Being’s dynamism touches your field, touches your mandala. This is where the transformation of experience begins, which then ripples through the whole field.”