Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.
Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.
Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.
Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.
Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.
Freedom is an endless meeting.
I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.
I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding is, quite simply, war.
I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody- including me- has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.
If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.
In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment.
In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.
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 weird.
Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.
Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.
Real love hurts; real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you. I kept thinking, if love does not shatter you, you do not know love...
Real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you.
Religion is just coded spirituality.
Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.
Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.
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 religion that assures you God hates you for all of that- and then look me in the eye and tell me you can feel ok about yourself. I dare you. I just dare you.
The great and rare mystics of the past... were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.
The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.
The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.
The ultimate metaphysical secret, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two.
There is a way out, but the way out is really a way within.
These two enormous forces- truth and meaning- are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.
Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.
We divide reality, forget that we have divided it, and then forget that we have forgotten it.
You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.
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