“All things are located everywhere. Everything is all, and all is each thing; infinite splendor is radiated around. Everything is great, for even the small is great.”
–Plotinus (Egyptian-born Roman Philosopher and Founder of Neo-Platonism, A.D.205-270)
“Those who judge human beings according to generic characteristics only reach the boundary, beyond which people begin to be beings whose activity is based on free self-determination…. Characteristics of race, tribe, ethnic group and gender are subjects for special sciences…. But all these sciences cannot penetrate through to the special nature of the individual. Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.”
–Rudolf Steiner (Croatian-born Austrian Mystic, Occultist, Social Philosopher, Architect and Founder of Anthroposophy, 1861-1925)
“And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water. I am sure that some will say that a rapidly growing market for water is “good for the economy,” and most of us are still affluent enough to pay the cost. Nevertheless, it is a considerable cost that we are now paying for drinkable water, which we once had in plentiful supply at little cost or none at all. And the increasing of the cost suggests that the time may come when the cost will be unaffordable.”
–Wendell Berry (American Poet, Novelist and Essayist, 1934-)
{Commencement Address, Lindsey Wilson College, 14 May 2005}
“The geometry of the archetypes and the Universal Mind are evident in the principles of symmetry which pervade nature and art. Symmetry shows us a glimpse of the ideal beauty which is reflected in nature, infusing it with order. Symmetry is universal; it can be found everywhere as the broad principle of balance and harmony.”
–Shirley J. Nicholson (American Teacher, Theosophist, Author, Former Chief Editor of Quest Books and Resident Head of the Krotona Community)
“Ancient Wisdom – Modern Insight (Quest Books)” (Shirley J. Nicholson)
“From the smallest individual detail to the vastest aggregations, our living universe (in common with our inorganic universe) has a structure, and this structure can owe its nature only to a phenomenon of growth.”
–Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French Jesuit Priest, Mystic, Paleontologist and Author, 1881-1955)
“The Divine Milieu (Perennial Classics)” (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
“Numbers, as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in mind. It is not what we can do with numbers but what they do to our consciousness that is essential.”
–Marie-Louise von Franz (German-born Swiss Jungian Psychologist and Author, 1915-1998)
“The simple beauty of a crystal is, in part, its strict mathematical order. Through the study of number and shape we begin to apprehend the cosmic order.”
–Michael S. Schneider (American Teacher, Writer and Adjunct Professor at the California College of the Arts, 1951-)
“Beginners Guide to Constructing Universe”” (Perenial Library,1994)
“All the great seers teach that God in himself is infinite love – that his manifestation, form or body is infinite wisdom – that divine love is the self-subsisting life of the universe.”
–Richard Maurice Bucke (Canadian Psychiatrist, Mystic and Writer, 1837-1902)
“Consciousness is in the first place not a matter of ‘I think’ but of ‘I can.”
–Maurice Merleau-Ponty (French Philosopher, Phenomenologist and Social Critic, 1908-1961)
“We can choose to develop awareness,…. which allows us to be responsible agents instead of helpless victims.”
–Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (English-born Buddhist Nun, 1944-)
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