Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoidance of danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

Independence is my happiness, ... my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

"Good health makes a lot of sense, but it doesn't make a lot of dollars."

It is science's reductive perfectionism —seeking to reduce the unending fullness of life to a few component pieces— that dampens and diminishes our natural creativity and the expansive holistic solutions we now so urgently need.

"To cut to the chase, quantum mechanics is telling us consciousness creates reality. Yes this has profound consequences for the interpretation of our own nature..."

Dr Bernard Haisch, Calphysics Institute

The Purpose Guided Universe (@ Amazon.com)

"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself."

Alan Alda

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

Roman Emperor from AD161 to his death in AD180

To me one thing that has emerged from my experience and from very rigorous analysis of that experience over several years, talking it over with others that I respect in neuroscience, and really trying to come up with an answer, is that consciousness outside of the brain is a fact. It’s an established fact. And of course, that was a hard place for me to get, coming from being a card-toting reductive materialist over decades. It was very difficult to get to knowing that consciousness, that there’s a soul of us that is not dependent on the brain.

Neurosurgeon/Neuroscientist Dr. Eben Alexander

Skeptiko interview with Dr Eben Alexander

... the more you insist on doing things you're not good at, the more you forgo wealth.

Ross Gittins

All work creates wealth

(visionaries and great leaders) moved out of the society that would have protected them, and into the dark forest, into the world of fire, of original experience. Original experience has not been interpreted for you, and so you’ve got to work out your life for yourself. Either you can take it or you can’t. You don’t have to go far off the interpreted path to find yourself in very difficult situations. The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience – that is the hero’s deed.

Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth, with Bill Moyers

Systems theory looks at the world in terms of the interrelatedness of all phenomena, and in this framework an integrated whole whose properties cannot be reduced to those of its parts is called a system.

Fritjof Capra

The Turning Point

Nothing is unannounced. If you are paying attention, stuff comes down the pike.
First a little wave, then a medium wave, then the tsunami.

Terence McKenna

''Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

Lord Jonathan Sacks

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock

Thomas Jefferson

"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash."

Harriet Rubin

Consciousness, to be fully free, had to be endowed with unpredictability. All That Is had to surprise himself, herself, itself, constantly, through freely granting itself its own freedom, or forever repeat itself.

Jane Roberts (Seth)

The Unknown Reality, Vol. 1

Unpredictability does not mean chaos. All order rises out of the creative elements of unpredictability ... Unpredictability assures uniqueness, and is the opposite of predetermined motion. The great saga of recognized physical activity arises from a vast unrecognized, unpredictable dimension in which probabilities are allowed full freedom

Jane Roberts (Seth)

The Unknown Reality, Vol. 1

We know now, however, that it is Einstein's theory that ultimately fails. On extremely fine scales, space-time, and thus reality itself, becomes grainy and discontinuous, like a badly overmagnified newspaper photograph. The equations of general relativity simply can't handle such a situation, where the laws of cause and effect break down and particles jump from point A to point B without going through the space in between.

J. MADELEINE NASH

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.

[Dissolution Speech]

J. Krishnamurti

Dissolution Speech

There is no event upon the face of the earth in which each of you has not played some part, however minute, because of the nature of your thoughts, beliefs, and expectations. There is no public act in which you are not in that same manner involved. You are intimately connected with _all_ of the historic events of your time. To some extent you participated in putting a man on the moon, whether or not you had any connection at all with the physical occurance itself. 

Jane Roberts (Seth)

The Individual and the nature of mass events

"If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others, and you will find your answer."

Jane Roberts (Seth)

The Bible is a profoundly human, deeply flawed, tribal history that has created as much pain as blessing in our world.

Bishop John Shelby Spong

"The Word of God"

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star

Frederick Nietzsche

When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

Cree Prophecy

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.

"I don't much care where -- ", said Alice.

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, 1861

You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. You have to trust that somehow the dots will connect in the future.

Steve Jobs

Stanford University graduation address

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Mark Twain

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.”

Peter Drucker

“Now that we have met with paradox we have some hope of making progress.”

Niels Bohr

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct arising from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”

Carl Jung

"The individual is stronger than any system, and the individual must always come first ...Your vitality comes first. You form systems ... the systems must not be allowed to rule you."

Jane Roberts

Psychic Politics

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader

John Quincy Adams

All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

J. Krishnamurti

It behooves those who seek truth to study the abstract features of the truths of as many disciplines as possible, in order to determine which of the ideas of each of them correspond and which do not, with the notion that those ideas that do recur in a varied range of domains of knowledge are more likely to be true than those that don’t. Thus the seemingly invariant truths are the ones that should be pursued further, as significant investigations toward our future understanding of the real world.

Dr Mendel Sachs

Bridging Science and Spirit (Norman Friedman).

"Each person enfolds something of the spirit of the other in his consciousness."

David Bohm

“The stuff of the world is mind-stuff. The mind-stuff is not spread in space and time; these are part of the cyclic scheme ultimately derived out of it."

Sir Arthur Eddington

A Clearer Light

"I have always believed, andI still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value"

Hermann Hesse

"There is joy in work ... There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

Henry Ford

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

[Similarly}

"Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid." (Earl Nightingale)

Marie Curie (and Earl Nightingale)

"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall ... Freedom and slavery are mental states."

Mohandas Gandhi

"The will is never free—it is always attached to an object, a purpose."

Joyce Cary

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face ... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it ... You must make youself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act."

Orison Swett Marden

"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triump of life is expressed by creation."

Henri Bergson

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of Wisdom"

Thomas Jefferson

Bell proves conclusively that the world behind (physical) phenomena must be non-local. Bell does not merely suggest or hint that reality is non-local, he actually proves it.

Nick Herbert

Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics

The core of individuality, then, is the individual's expectations, for he will truly get what he wants, individually and collectively. If a man wants to change his fate, desire is not enough, but expectation is.

Desire may grow into expectation, but alone it is not enough. Expectation is actually the main trigger that switches inner data into the realm of physical construction. Without it, no physical construction results.

Jane Roberts

The Early Sessions, Book 2

"The fetus grows into the adult, not because it is programmed from the past, but because it is to some extent precognitively aware of its probabilities, and from the "future" then imprints this information into the past structure.

"It is the body's own precognition that allows the child to develop, to speak and walk and grow."

"From your platform of poised now-experience, you alter both the past and the future, and that alteration, that change, that action, cause your point of immediate sense life."

 

Jane Roberts

The Unknown Reality

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to
know good and evil

[Ancient wisdoms reaffirming interconnectedness, responsibility and choice]

Genesis 3:22

Bible, King James Version, The First Book of Moses: Called Genesis

... we believe quantum theory because of its enormous experimental success: it really has been the most successful physical theory in history

[David Deutsch, University of Oxford]

Paul Davies, J.R. Brown

The Ghost in the Atom

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness

Francesco Sylos Labini

Whatever reality may be, it must be non-local. Since (Clauser’s) experimental verification of Bell’s theorem, we know that any correct model of reality has to incorporate explicit non-local connections. No local reality can explain the type of world we live in.

Nick Herbert

Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics

The advancing sieve of time coagulates waves into particles at the moment 'now.' [Sir Lawrence Bragg]

Ronald W. Clark

The Pythagoreans) .. were aware that the symbols of mythology and the symbols of mathematical science were different aspects of the same, indivisible Reality.

They did not live in a ‘divided house of faith and reason’; the two were interlocking, like ground plan and elevation of an architect’s drawing.

It is a state of mind very difficult for twentieth-century man to imagine—or even to believe that it could ever have existed.

Arthur Koestler

The Sleepwalkers

Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth

... as youths ... (Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, Hans Christian Anderson, Niels Bohr, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Humphrey Davy, Albert Einstein) all had one characteristic in common; each was an individualist, saw no need to explain himself and was thus listed among the odd men out.

Ronald W Clark

Edison. The Man Who Made The Future

immediate, unmediated (nonlocal) connections are present not only in rare and exotic circumstances, but underlie all the events of everyday life. Non-local connections are ubiquitous because reality itself is non-local.

Nick Herbert

Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics

"Don't aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue ... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself."

Victor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

...various successive living forms unfold creatively. Later members are not completely derivable from what came earlier, through a process in which effect arises out of cause (though in some approximation such a causal process may explain certain limited aspects of the sequence.

David Bohm

Wholeness and the Implicate Order

(The Pythagoreans) .. were aware that the symbols of mythology and the symbols of mathematical science were different aspects of the same, indivisible Reality. They did not live in a ‘divided house of faith and reason’; the two were interlocking, like ground plan and elevation of an architect’s drawing. It is a state of mind very difficult for twentieth-century man to imagine—or even to believe that it could ever have existed.
 

Arthur Koestler

The Sleepwalkers

In every tradition, not just the Indian, the grip of detachment and renunciation has had its withering effect.

Deepak Chopra

Quantum Healing

The introspective reports of artists and scientists on their sources of inspiration and methods of work often display the same contradiction. “Saturate yourself through and through with your subject... and wait” was Lloyd Morgan’s advice.

Arthur Koestler

The Act of Creation

The fetus grows into an adult, not because it is programmed from the past, but because it is to some extent precognitively aware of its probabilities ... It is truer to say that hereditary operates from the future backward into the past, than it is to say that it operates from the past into the present. Neither statement would be precisely correct in any case, because your present is a poised balance affected as much by the probable future as the probable past.

Jane Roberts

The Unknown Reality

There is one hundred percent diversity and one hundred percent unity, both performing their work at the same time. That is the nature of the work of creation—this is true reality. To us, one seems real and the other unreal. The reality is that both are real at the same time.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

[Source: Deepak Chopra]

Over the years I have learned that reality, divinity, unity, or the absolute -whatever term you choose to describe the sacred mystery- cannot be limited either to the rationality and objectivity of science nor to the unity and subjectivity of spiritual seekers.

Prof. Victor Mansfield

Head and Heart [Source: WorldTrade.com]

“the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.

Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter... we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.”

Sir James Jeans

The Mental Universe

One benefit of switching humanity to a correct perception of the world is the resulting joy of discovering the mental nature of the universe. We have no idea what this mental nature implies, but — the great thing is — it is true. Beyond the acquisition of this perception, physics can no longer help. You may descend into solipsism, expand to deism, or something else if you can justify it — just don’t ask physics for help.

The universe is immaterial—mental and spiritual.

Prof. Richard Conn Henry, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University

The Mental Universe

“Drugs are not always necessary.
Belief in recovery always is.”

Norman Cousins

-- Anatomy of an illness