Approach Quote by Anonymous

The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose…

— Thomas Chalmers

“We breathe too fast to be able to grasp things in themselves or to expose their fragility. Our panting postulates and distorts them, creates…

— Emil Cioran

Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural…

— Tilopa

“The brevity of life, the failing of the senses, the numbness of indifference and unprofitable occupations allow us to know very little. And again…

— Nicholas Copernicus

Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions.…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common…

— R. D. Laing

“A form of consciousness beyond the veils of discursive thought, a space forever present for those who seek it, not in some far-off wilderness,…

— Ian Baker

Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert…

— Stephen Batchelor

“I came into the unknown and stayed there unknowing rising beyond all science. I did not know the door but when I found the…

— St. John of the Cross

Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“ The Cloud of Unknowing was written by someone who was exceedingly tough-minded in the sense in which William James used the phrase. He…

— Ira Progoff

Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this…

— Meister Eckhart