91 quotes found
“I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.”
“Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”
“The Shadow-maker shapes forever.”
“I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.”
“For the most part, what we think of as 'I' is nothing more than a whole heap of conditioning.”
“The [character-]armored, mechanistically rigid person thinks mechanistically, produces mechanistic tools, and forms a mechanistic conception of nature.The armored person who feels his orgonotic bod...”
“That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.”
“The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God i...”
“Let it be stated clearly that mysticism is an a-rational type of experience, and in some degree common to all men.It is an intuitive, self-evident, self-recognized knowledge which comes fitfully to...”
“Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu”
“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breath forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when ...”
“Prayer is a many fingeredand kaleidoscopic thingit foldsand unfolds inside of you. It entersthe many rooms you cannot enter.”
“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate...”
“In its quest to discover how the patterns of reality are organised, the story of modern science hints at a picture of a set of Chinese puzzle boxes, each one more intricately structured and wondrou...”
“Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.”
“It was the discovery of the quantum universe that changed everything, and that universe was so small and so dynamic that it could not be observed directly. Trying to explain their insights, scienti...”
“Poetry in the soul ennobles the insignificant. Something in us does yearn for the ideal.”
“even there a shining is flowing from all the stonesthough the eyes are not yet made that can see it”
“While we must not fall into the gnosticizing trap of seeing the world as only ideal, without any reference to the physical and tangible universe we inhabit, neither should we commit to crass litera...”
“...the clearer the light is, the more it blinds and darkens the pupil of the owl; and the more we look at the sun, the greater is the darkness it causes in our vision ... in the same way, when the ...”
