Center

The center is the father
of the directions, the dimensions and the distances.
-Occult Maxim
The center is symbolic of the eternal potential.
-Jose Arguelles
At the core,
each man is the center of his own compass and experiences,
his own cardinal points, North, South, East and West.
-Jose Arguelles
Each life converges to some centre
Expressed or still.
-Emily Dickinson
The work of human works is to establish,
in and by means of each one of us,
an absolutely original center
in which the universe reflects itself in a unique and inimitable way.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If the ultimate center of consciousness is to be built,
it must be built out of centers that are already strongly formed.
-Vilayat Inayat Khan
Like every other living thing,
I also am in the center of the cosmic whirlpool.
-Nikos Kazantzakis
Though we must see ourselves as a center,
our true center is what makes our existence possible.
-Strephon Kaplan-Williams
Man's consciousness must be a consciousness of the centre,
of the frontier between the world above and the world below.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
The more obligations and activities you have in the world
- that is to say, at the periphery -
the more you must strengthen the bonds
that link you to the center, the spirit,
for it is from this center that you receive the light, energy and peace
you need to carry your undertakings
through to a successful conclusion.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
It is the centering within each person of his own power
that enables us to continue to sculpt the form
that best serves us in navigating the universe.
-Paul Hougham
Oriented to the center, all falls into place
and we can then move through the continually unfolding outer world
without loss of our identity to that world.
-Jseph Chilton Pearce
We can swing back and forth between opposites indefinitely.
Better to stand on the stillpoint at the center.
-Marion Woodman
...the center in which we must stand,
the center of life which is equally near and equally far
from all points on the periphery.
Whoever stands in that center
can use the same measure for all calculations.
The relation to the center of life
determines the measure to the periphery of being.
-Hans-Ulrich Rieker
Center, how you draw yourself out of all things,
regaining yourself even from things in flight:
Center strongest of all.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
The center is always less than a thought away.
-Stephen Mitchell
The center is the fulcrum point
around which the opposites unite.
-Strephon Kaplan-Williams
I have mistaken almost everything
except the center.
-Roberto Juarroz
The center is a well.
-Edmond Jabes
You are at the periphery
when you have to explain things to people;
when you can be silent and not have to speak
you are at the centre.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Raise your consciousness
to the central point of your being.
-Selvarajan Yesudian
Stop for a few minutes, many times a day,
and try to find within yourself a center of equilibrium,
your divine center.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Find the center around which everything revolves -
Stand here and be flooded with joy.
-Lorin Roche
Once you experience being at the center,
you suddenly see the whole world changing.
-Chandra Mohan Jain, " Osho"
Centering is just to gather yourself totally at one point.
Once you are gathered at one point, crystallized at one  point,
that point explodes automatically.
Then there is no center - or, then the center is everywhere.
-Chandra Mohan Jain "Osho"
When you know where your Center is,
Your radius is limitless.
-Kenneth G. Mills
I stand in the circle's center,
and command all compass points.
-Deng Ming-Dao

Life from the Center
is a life of unhurried peace and power.
It is simple.
It is serene.
It is radiant.
It is triumphant.
-Thomas R. Kelly