in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe.
-Jorge Luis Borges
I desired dragons with a profound desire.
-C. S. Lewis
Fire runs in my noble veins,
Who else could hold the dragon's reins?
-Emily Carding
snow, lightning,
stars and clouds -
the diet of white dragons
-John Sandbach
I am a brother to dragons and a companion to owls.
-The Bible
But it is one thing to read about dragons
and another to meet them.
-Ursula K. Le Guin
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations,
if you live near him.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
Never tickle a sleeping dragon.
-J. K. Rowling
Never laugh at live dragons.
-J. R. R Tolkien
Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
-William Shakespeare
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk
and of wasting time trying to understand it.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
You can't just sit down and tell a dragon the truth.
-Franklin Jones
In shallow holes, moles make fools of dragons.
-Proverb
There is no room for two dragons in one pond.
-Chinese Proverb
Every dragon gives birth to a St. George who slays it.
-Kahlil Gibran
If the lion and the dragon fight,
they will both die.
-Tadashi Adachi
A dragon's head and a snake's tail.
(a good beginning and a bad ending)
-Zen Saying
So comes snow after fire,
and even dragons have their ending.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
She was allured by the contemplation
of the wide-mouthed old dragon, Ego.
-George Meredith
The invitation is to willingly ride our inner dragon,
and to discover from personal experience
that our inner dragon is only tamed when we choose to ride it.
-Michael Brown
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes,
and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
-Tom Robbins
We should not be just a fan of dragons;
we should always be the dragon himself.
Then we will not be afraid of any dragon.
-D. T. Suzuki
When the prison doors are opened,
the real dragon will fly out.
-Ho Chi Minh
Behold yin and yang as two benevolent dragons in the sky,
desiring to mate.
-Rowena Pattee Kryder
O to be a dragon,
a symbol of the power of Heaven - of silkworm
size or immense; at times invisible.
Felicitous phenomenon!
-Marianne Moore
Dragons are awe-inspiring in spirit
but settled in essence.
-Confucius
I am a brother to dragons,
and a companion to owls.
-The Bible
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The best-known symbolical figure of China is the dragon.
The dragon represents life and death both;
life in the sense of eternal life,
death in the sense of a change from mortality to eternity.
Very often a Chinese dragon has an appearance of
a tiger, of a seal, its body that of a snake,
together with wings of the birds and the paws of the carnivorous animals,
also some appearance of man -
which means that life is one but it is manifest in many forms,
that life lives on life and so hungers for life.
The dragon suggests mortality standing by one's side,
awaiting its hour every moment of our life,
and yet man is unaware of it, building castles in the air,
depending upon the life of this mortal world.
The dragon also suggests that there is an obstacle
on the way to eternity and that obstacle is death,
and that can be avoided by conquering the dragon.
The dragon is also a picture of man's selfish ego,
which is not only the enemy of others, but which makes man his own enemy.
The dragon signifies the lower nature,
and the conquering of the lower nature is the killing of the dragon,
of which St. George also is the symbol.
The dragon is a sign of material power,
which has its transitory reign over things and beings;
and often power can govern or cause difficulty even to spiritual beings,
for the reason that even spiritual beings have matter which makes their being
and which is dependent for its life and comfort on things of this earth.
But all stories of dragons prove the dragon to be a failure in the end
and the spirit alone conqueror over it.
In Chinese art this symbol is kept to the fore,
for this one symbol suggests and touches many things.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
the path of the dragon current,
which flowed as a white yang tiger in the high mountains
and as a yin blue dragon in the low hills and valleys.
Where the two lung mei met,
where the two breaths became one,
was a node or power point full of chi.
-Richard Leviton
The adepts who choose this Path
are called esoterically the "beneficent dragons,"
and the energy with which they work
and the stream of living force upon which they are found
emanates from the constellation of the Dragon,
working through the zodiacal sign Libra.
-Alice Bailey
There is only one Dragon.
It lives inside the earth and is as huge as the whole planet.
Its mind thrives within the magnetic field thrown from the core...
Slowly molting within the sliding of the tectonic plates,
the Dragon renews itself over aeons.
-A. A. Attanasio
Dragons are mystical, powerful, emerging out of mystery,
fierce, benign, know to teach humans the deepest reaches of wisdom.
And dragons are filled with fire.
Though there are no dragons, we are dragon fire.
Wer are the creative, scintillating, searing, healing flame
of the awesome and enchanting universe.
-Brian Swimme
The yang dragon of the heavens
can become the yin dragon of the waters,
and the yin phoenix can become the yang vermilion bird of fire,
each symbolizing the mystic powers of the yin and yang
and resolving the opposites of fire and water,
the two great creative elements.
-Jean C. Cooper
You have to infer the whole dragon from the parts you can touch,
the old people would say...
I could listen to its voice in the thunder
and feel its breathing in the winds...
In spring, when the dragon awakes,
I watch its turnings in the rivers.
-Maxine Hong Kingston
I am an unquenchable fire,
the center of all energy,
the stout heroic heart.
I am truth and light,
I hold power and glory in my sway.
My presence disperses dark clouds.
I have been chosen to tame the Fates.
I AM THE DRAGON.
-Theodora Lau
The dragon represents life and death both;
life in the sense of eternal life,
death in the sense of a change from mortality to eternity.
Very often a Chinese dragon has an appearance of
a tiger, of a seal, its body that of a snake,
together with wings of the birds and the paws of the carnivorous animals,
also some appearance of man -
which means that life is one but it is manifest in many forms,
that life lives on life and so hungers for life.
The dragon suggests mortality standing by one's side,
awaiting its hour every moment of our life,
and yet man is unaware of it, building castles in the air,
depending upon the life of this mortal world.
The dragon also suggests that there is an obstacle
on the way to eternity and that obstacle is death,
and that can be avoided by conquering the dragon.
The dragon is also a picture of man's selfish ego,
which is not only the enemy of others, but which makes man his own enemy.
The dragon signifies the lower nature,
and the conquering of the lower nature is the killing of the dragon,
of which St. George also is the symbol.
The dragon is a sign of material power,
which has its transitory reign over things and beings;
and often power can govern or cause difficulty even to spiritual beings,
for the reason that even spiritual beings have matter which makes their being
and which is dependent for its life and comfort on things of this earth.
But all stories of dragons prove the dragon to be a failure in the end
and the spirit alone conqueror over it.
In Chinese art this symbol is kept to the fore,
for this one symbol suggests and touches many things.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
The gift of a black pearl can symbolize wisdom. The Tahiti Traveler reports that the ancient Chinese believed that pearls originated in dragons' brains and the black pearl was therefore a sign of wisdom. National Museums Liverpool further explains that “The pearl can stand for truth, life or wisdom, and if the dragon loses it, he is left helpless and incapable of action.” According to The Tahiti Traveler, the dragon guards the pearl by holding it between its teeth. To obtain the rare black pearl, someone must first slay the dragon.
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The Chinese called their ley lines lung mei, Read more : http://www.ehow.com/about_7239786_significance-giving-black-pearls.html
the path of the dragon current,
which flowed as a white yang tiger in the high mountains
and as a yin blue dragon in the low hills and valleys.
Where the two lung mei met,
where the two breaths became one,
was a node or power point full of chi.
-Richard Leviton
The adepts who choose this Path
are called esoterically the "beneficent dragons,"
and the energy with which they work
and the stream of living force upon which they are found
emanates from the constellation of the Dragon,
working through the zodiacal sign Libra.
-Alice Bailey
There is only one Dragon.
It lives inside the earth and is as huge as the whole planet.
Its mind thrives within the magnetic field thrown from the core...
Slowly molting within the sliding of the tectonic plates,
the Dragon renews itself over aeons.
-A. A. Attanasio
Dragons are mystical, powerful, emerging out of mystery,
fierce, benign, know to teach humans the deepest reaches of wisdom.
And dragons are filled with fire.
Though there are no dragons, we are dragon fire.
Wer are the creative, scintillating, searing, healing flame
of the awesome and enchanting universe.
-Brian Swimme
The yang dragon of the heavens
can become the yin dragon of the waters,
and the yin phoenix can become the yang vermilion bird of fire,
each symbolizing the mystic powers of the yin and yang
and resolving the opposites of fire and water,
the two great creative elements.
-Jean C. Cooper
You have to infer the whole dragon from the parts you can touch,
the old people would say...
I could listen to its voice in the thunder
and feel its breathing in the winds...
In spring, when the dragon awakes,
I watch its turnings in the rivers.
-Maxine Hong Kingston
I am an unquenchable fire,
the center of all energy,
the stout heroic heart.
I am truth and light,
I hold power and glory in my sway.
My presence disperses dark clouds.
I have been chosen to tame the Fates.
I AM THE DRAGON.
-Theodora Lau
