Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
What I want back is what I was.
In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.
You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to be a monk. ... My dear brothers, WE ARE ALREADY ONE. BUT WE IMAGINE THAT WE ARE NOT. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are
By justice I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are in their nature unjust.
If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated.
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.
There's nothing unnatural in creation.
"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.
Man is a degeneration of what he was.
See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.
I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.
Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.
I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.
When you're feeling unwell, remember that the same power that actually made your body knows how to restore it to its original state of well-being. All you have to do is remove the obstacles erected by you and your toxic world, and allow this healing power to flow through you.
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.
In the beginning was simplicity.
