During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialization of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.” — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
Knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation;… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share
