IMPORTANT QUOTES


I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details - Albert Einstein
It is flat out strange that something - that anything - is happening at all. There was nothing, then a Big Bang, then here we all are. This is extremely weird - Ken Wilber
Useful as it is under everyday circumstances to say that the world exists ‘out there,’ independent of us, that view can no longer be upheld. There is a strange sense in which this is a ‘participatory’ universe - John Wheeler (Nobel Prize-Winning Theoretical Physicist)
Lack of knowledge about the evolution of the organic from the “inorganic,” coupled with misleading myths about life coming “into” this world from somewhere “outside,” has made it difficult for us to see that the biosphere arises, or goes with, a certain degree of geological and astronomical evolution, as Douglas E. Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as absurd as thinking the body as a cell-infested skeleton – Alan Watts
…Stoicism offered an “imminent” God, because God was equivalent to Nature
or the world itself, meaning the total universe – Earl Doherty (The Jesus Puzzle)
...Surely, all forms of life, including man, must be understood as “symptoms” of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy – in which case we cannot escape the conclusion that the galaxy is intelligent – Alan Watts
...we neither discover an objective reality nor invent a subjective reality, but that there is a process of responsive evocation, the world ‘calling forth’ something in me that in turn ‘calls forth’ something in the world – Iain McGilchrist
According to the new physics, observer and observed are somehow connected, and the inner domain of subjective thought turns out to be intimately conjoined to the external sphere of objective facts - Leonard Shlain

The first result of this illusion is that our attitude to the world “outside” us is largely hostile. We are forever “conquering” nature, space, mountains, deserts, bacteria, and insects instead of learning to cooperate with them in a harmonious order. In America the great symbols of this conquest are the bulldozer and the rocket – the instrument that batters the hills into flat tracts for little boxes made of ticky-tacky and the great phallic projectile that blasts the sky – Alan Watts
Sheldrake has sought answers to the unexplained mysteries thrown up by research that are usually ignored by science. When a laboratory rat has learned a new trick in one place, other rats elsewhere seem to be able to learn it more easily…When some birds first learned to open milk bottles on the doorstep, birds all over the country suddenly learned the same trick…Sheldrake’s solution to these puzzles, proposed in his 1983 book, A New Science of Life, is that organisms and species can learn, develop, and adapt through a process he called morphic resonance – Richard Milton
Biophilia is the passionate love of life and of all that is alive, it is the wish to further growth, whether in a person, a plant, an idea, or a social group...the biophilious person…wants to be more rather than to have more – Erich Fromm
The id is that very protohuman psychic core that our evolution has spent millions of years molding to fit the planetary environment. Its seeming unruliness deserves a deeper understanding, if only because it grows from a long evolutionary history. In the course of that history its dominant characteristics must have been selected for some good reason – Theodore Roszak

…the id conserves from its long maturing process…our treasury of ecological intelligence. Its intractability stems from its deeply ingrained resistance to all social forms that endanger the harmony of the human and the natural; its untamed “selfishness” represents a bond between psyche and cosmos whose distant origins reach back to the initial conditions of the Big Bang – Theodore Roszak

...Just as there is a “wisdom of the body” which often has a better sense of health than medical science, so too there may be a “wisdom of the id” that knows what sanity is better than any school of psychiatry whose standard of normality is essentially a defense of misconceived social necessity – Theodore Roszak
Always think of the universe as one living organism, with a single substance and a single soul; and observe how all things are submitted to the single perceptivity of this one whole, all are moved by its single impulse, and all play their part in the causation of every event that happens. Remark the intricacy of skein, the complexity of the web - Marcus Aurelius
...for an ecopsychology, nothing serves as a more telling symptom of our collective state of soul than this urban habitat, which has balanced on the edge of psychopathology since its beginning...The industrial city might be seen as the collective “body armor” of our culture, a pathological effort to distance us from close contact with the natural continuum from which we evolve – Theodore Roszak
…around fifteen billion years ago there was, precisely, absolute nothingness, and then within less than a nanosecond the material universe blew into existence. Stranger still, the physical matter so produced was not merely a random and chaotic mess, but seemed to organize itself into ever more complex and intricate forms. So complex were these forms that, many billions of years later, some of them found ways to reproduce themselves, and thus out of matter arose life – Ken Wilber
In your own bosom you bear your Heaven and Earth; and all you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your Imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow
– William Blake (Jerusalem)
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence - William Blake
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius - William Blake
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise - William Blake
The means by whereby individual life comes to birth is instinct. The means whereby it becomes conscious is Imagination - Max Ploughman
Nature prefers to remain unknown - Heraclitus
If Nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing - Henry Poincare
We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance
– Max Born
Just as our one body is composed of many members which are held together by one soul, so I think that the universe ought to be thought of as an immense, complex organism held together by the power and reason (logos) of God as by a single soul – Origen of Alexandria
The relation of the unobservable non-spacetime Akasha dimension to the observable spacetime dimension is analogous to the relation of the software of an information system to its behavior. The software determines how the system acts, and these actions are reflected in the display. The computer is active, and the display reflects this activity. But the software does not change as a result of this activity. Until and unless it is modified, it remains what it is: a set of algorithms that governs the behavior of the system. It is the unchanging logos and not the changing dynamics of the system - Ervin Laszlo & Anthony Peake
Tantra is a religious tradition that originated in India the middle of the first millennium CE, and has been practiced by Buddhists, Hindus and Jains throughout south and southeast Asia. It views humans as a microcosmos which mirrors the macrocosmos...It views the godhead as both transcendent and immanent, and views the world as real, and not as an illusion - Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia (Entry on Non-dualism)
Rather than attempting to see through or transcend the world, the practitioner comes to recognize that the world as "I" is the supreme egoity of the Godhead. In other words, we gain a "God's eye-view" of the universe, and recognizes it to be nothing other than ourselves - ibid