intermediate state Quotes

It doesn't really exist; it's just basically lots of different stages between the two pieces, and you end up with, like, a third shape that doesn't exist but is suggested to you by the image.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]

It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.

There is no such thing as life in-between.

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.

The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.

The way I understood purgatory - and maybe you've got a different version - but in Chicago in the '70s, the idea was it was like detention. You had screwed up and you go over there in purgatory and you sit there until the end of days and then we'll decide. You'd made your mistake, and you were in prison, and it's not terrible and it's not great, and you feel a little crappy because you were not in the presence of God.