Language Quote by Fred Alan Wolf

“When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.” quote by Fred Alan Wolf — Download Open image

“When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.”

Fred Alan Wolf

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We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the land that we now call Iraq.Abraham emerged and took a flock of people with him into Egypt. They were later called the Hebrews because of the valleys that they came out of. The alchemy that they…

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Alchemy and Kabbalah are later developments in my thinking. I think the primary interest has been the relationship of magic and mystery to logic and understanding. Those are the primary driving forces of my life. I have this ability, for some reason, to be able to hold both the Magical MysteryTour we're on in conjunction with the logical rigor of…

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Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.

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I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic…

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In the new alchemy, we have a similar kind of way of thinking. Our internal space includes our intuitions, our thoughts, our senses and our feelings, and from these we construct or build a picture of the outside world. From intuition and thought, we construct time. We also construct space from thought and our sensations. From our senses and our…

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Reality gets created through acts of observation

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Asking yourself deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life…

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Chemistry comes about through the transformation of earth, air, fire and water. All chemistry is just movement within those things, and so we experience the joys and the sorrows of hot and cold, and dry and moist, because of these chemical transformations. In a similar way, we create and experience a world of time, space, motion and energy, through our…

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