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- Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out…
- Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus…
- ....all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like…
- Were you somebody different a thousand years ago? Will you be somebody different a thousand years from now? What is this One Self that is…
- Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God today,…
- I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on…
- Start as a human being in this culture, toss in madness, toss in mystical states, toss in being gay, toss in being HIV-positive, toss in…
- In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts…
- The great and secret message of the experiential mystics the world over is that, with the eye of contemplation, Spirit can be seen. With the…
- A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the…
- Meditation, then, is not so much a part of this or that particular religion, but rather part of the universal spiritual culture of all humankind--an…
- The integral approach is committed to the full spectrum of consciousness as it manifests in all its extraordinary diversity. This allows the integral approach to…
- In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies…
- The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder.…
- There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.
- There are several different meanings of the words religion and spirituality, all of which are important. The whole point about an integral or comprehensive approach…
- Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising…
- It is flat-out strange that something-that anything-is happening at all. There was nothing then a Big Bang, then here we all are. This is extremely…
- Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the…
- But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is…
- Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.
- You can indeed be aware of your body, but you can also be aware of your mind - you can right now notice all the…
- If Spirit has any meaning, it must be omnipresent, or all-pervading and all-encompassing. There can't be a place where Spirit is not, or it wouldn't…
- Further, if Spirit has any meaning at all, then it must be eternal, or without beginning or end. If Spirit had a beginning in time,…
- Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle