Assimilation of the fruits of each past life takes place before the spirit descends to rebirth, and consequently, the character generated is fully formed and readily expressed in the subtle, mobile mind-stuff of the Region of Concrete Thought, where the archetype of the coming dense body is built.
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Just as Divinity descends in a certain manner, to the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature, just as by means of a life resplendent in natural things one rises to the life that presides over them.
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.