“The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use – of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.”
–Robert F. Kennedy (American Senator and, from 1961-1964, Attorney General of the United States, 1925-1968)
“Free and conscious cooperation in the great life of the All alone can make personal life worth living.”
–Evelyn Underhill (English Mystic, Poet, Writer and Spiritual Counselor, 1875-1941)
“The older and deeper all-pervading joy is there…even when evil or pain is being endured on the level of consciousness controlled by individualized existence. Joy is always in the revels of the atoms and molecules making up the flesh and blood of the sufferer, in the swing of the planet on which he or she stands, in the sun which gives warmth and life. It is there…and can be tapped even in the darkest suffering.”
–Robert Ellwood (American Theosophist, Priest and Author, 1933-)
“What is (the earth) most like?…..It is most like a single cell.”
–Lewis Thomas (American Physician, Writer and Educator, 1913-1993)
“Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher” (Lewis Thomas)
“No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort’s principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.”
–Colin Wilson (English Novelist and Writer on Philosophy, Sociology and the Occult, 1931-)
“Mysteries: An Investigation into the Occult, the Paranormal and the Supernatural” (Colin Wilson)
“Through the years, people have related, oh, five hundred or six hundred near-death experiences to me. When people come back out of that experience of light, they’ll often say that they have a sense that everything is interconnected. In some way that’s hard to put into words, we’re all the same. We all share one mind. And it doesn’t stop with people, it has to do, too, with trees and plants and living things.”
–Joan Borysenko (American Psychologist, Writer, Mystic and Speaker, 1945-)
“Our presence here (in space), outside the domain of the home planet, was not rooted in an accident of nature or in the capricious political whim of a technological civilization. It was rather an extension of the same universal process that evolved our molecules. And what I felt was an extraordinary personal connectedness with it. I experienced what has been described as an ecstasy of unity. I not only SAW the connectedness, I FELT it and experienced it sentiently. I was overwhelmed with the sensation of physically and mentally extending out into the cosmos.”
–Edgar Mitchell (American Scientist, Apollo 14 Astronaut and Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, 1930-)
“All living souls in the world cumulatively make up part of a universal soul…. the soul giving us vitality is connected to, and draws sustenance from, a universal soul.”
–Rabbi David A. Cooper (American Rabbi and Writer, 1939-)
“God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism” (David A. Cooper)
“For God, every soul is sacred and blessed and always God’s child; the soul may forget its home and inheritance and identity, but God never forgets and acts in thousands of secret and overt ways to remind the soul of its real nature.”
–Andrew Harvey (Indian-born English Philosopher, 1952-)
“Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.”
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“The Family Reunion” (T. S. Eliot)T.S. Eliot (American-born English Poet, Playwright, and in 1948, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1888-1965)
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