Quotes about Boundaries

I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way. The basic challenges of getting our needs met and managing boundaries are inherent in growing up human.

. . . even the enlightened person . . . is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky.

Friend, there's a window that opens from heart to heart, and there are ways of closing it completely, not a needle's eye of access.  Open or shut; both ways are sometimes appropriate.

Nothing on Earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more

Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.

Man is the spiritual equinox of the Cosmos.
The boundaries of everything meet in him.

Jesus had good boundaries.

We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

"Love has no conditions.  When we put conditions, when we put barriers and boundaries, then we lose love.  Love is condition-less.  Love is barrier-less.  Look at the moon, sun, stars, trees. . . they are just on for everyone.  When our love also flows for everyone, you become very natural."

The principle of Creative Limitations calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles and restricted boundaries. Talent is like a muscle: without something to push against, it atrophies. So we deliberately put obstacles in our path - barriers that will inspire us. We disciple ourselves as to what to do, while we're boundless as to how to do it.

I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”

There are no boundaries--only possibilities.