Unity Cannot Be Numbered
“Unity cannot be numbered itself. It creates innumerable kinds from itself and contains them all within itself.”
–Macrobius (a.k.a. Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Latin Writer and Philosopher, c.A.D. 375-423)
Dream of A World
“Dream of a world in which the God and Goddess in you is never denied, and in which you never again deny the God and the Goddess in another. Let your greeting, both now and forevermore, be Namaste.”
–Neale Donald Walsch (American Writer, 1943-)
Doing What You Must Do
“You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man’s knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower; until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.”
–Ursula K. Le Guin (American Writer, 1929-)
“A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)” (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Subject and Object
“In the gap between subject and object lies the entire misery of humankind.”
–Jiddu Krishnamurti (Indian Spiritual Teacher, 1895-1986)
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The First and Last Freedom” (J. Krishnamurti)
Will Power
“Willpower is the energy of the Creative Principle in the Universe. It is the power that creates, sustains, and destroys. Because everything is emanated from this principle, the Core of every atom, cell, form, entity, and soul has its own willpower. It is the inner Core or inner Divine Spark that is a portion of that energy of the Creative Principle of the Universe. It is this willpower that gradually paves the way for you to direct your steps toward Home, toward the source of the Creative Principle.”
–Torkom Saraydarian (Armenian-born American Spiritual Teacher, Musician and Writer, 1917-1997)
We Should Go Forth
“We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return – sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.”
–Henry David Thoreau (American Essayist and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
The Thing WIth Feathers
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.”
–Emily Dickinson (New England Mystic Poet, 1830-1886)
We Really Do Need Wild Places
“People need wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do. We need to be able to taste grace and know again that we desire it. We need to experience a landscape that is timeless, whose agenda moves at the pace of speciation and glaciers.
To be surrounded by a singing, mating, howling commotion of other species, all of which love their lives as much as we do ours, and none of which could possibly care less about us in our place. It reminds us that our plans are small and somewhat absurd. It reminds us why, in those cases in which our plans might influence many future generations, we ought to choose carefully. Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own.”
–Barbara Klingsolver (American Writer and Political Activist, 1955-)
Nature Has a Vote!
“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”
–Wendell Berry (American Poet, Novelist and Essayist, 1934-)
Thoughts From Our Collective Mind
“Each theory may have evolved from a unique angle of analysis, but ultimately our theories form from – and refer to – a sort of unified, collective mind.”
–Todd Siler (American Visual Artist, Educator, Inventor and Author, 1953-)
