Concepts Quote by Jamgon Kongtrul

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“There are underlying principles at play in nature, from the fields, quanta, and forces of the universe to the ebb and flow of complexity,…

— Caleb Scharf

I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky, And the primordial germs of things unfold, Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies And fosters…

— Lucretius

“An individual is a complex, indefinable object. And so only the individual possesses something that can without lying be called existence. As the Cynic…

— Han Ryner

... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student…

— Ki Longfellow

In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity.

— Frederick Lenz

We seem to have lost our contact with the primordial: the idea of - call it divine revelation as opposed to something that's learned…

— John Tavener

The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“For every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an infinite Library,…

— Neal Stephenson

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

— Simone Weil

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

— Mason Cooley

“It’s a remarkable fact that the people who have gone the very deepest into the mind—the sages and saints of every religious tradition—all say…

— Rick Hanson