Im up and down and round about, — Circles

"Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."

"Circularity is a powerful concept, the idea of a closed loop even more so. In circular motion there is magic, just as there is in electro-magnetism. But it only manifests itself when it is, like (shall we say for the moment, rather than a reflection of) its neighboring head, truly three-dimensional. ...We can induce current into the one [coil] from the other by means totally unintelligible to us, but to which we give the name . But if I place one coil with its axis at right-angles to that of the other, there is no induced voltage. It is as if the two circuits lived in different worlds... What is the meaning of perspective in a four-dimensional space?"

"Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible."

"And the seasons they go round and round, And the painted ponies go up and down, Were all captive on the carousel of time We cant return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game."

"There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion."

"The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world."