28 Quotes About Newness

When you arise in the morning, do you throw open the window and look out at the world? Do you observe the same old things, or do you notice subtle changes, like buds opening on flowers, the scent of lilacs on the breeze, or the new song of a distant bird? This is the day the Lord has made! Rejoice in His bountiful, beautiful gift.That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other. ~Isaiah 45:6

To create the new we must first de-create the old; and the reality of decreation (as Stevens called it, borrowing the word from Simone Weil) is as strong as the reality of creation.

Life is a concept, like the “universe", that expands as soon as we reach what we think is its edge.

In new surroundings, one grows new eyes.

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

Being undone, we discover we’ve been fooled by wishing wells and have mistaken the fire of desire for radiance.

Change is like the skin peeling off of a snake. It is slow. It is sticky. And sometimes you have to rub against a hard place to pull yourself through it. But in the end, you realize that it was worth it all to get the the new place and new person you have become.

The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls opened for one another. We experienced all of the happiness and anguish of first love. Those first few weeks in Paris, we barely touched lips; yet the few times we did, it had the force of a collision of stars.

Revolution is simple. It's like a breath; out with the old, and in with the new.