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- In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
- ...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all…
- Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures…
- Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This…
- As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
- In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what…
- Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has…
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