An invitation to “a certain, forgotten way of seeing the world” and an exultation at “earthly life, with its duration so short it obliges us to surpass ourselves.” …
“It’s part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance and ultimate understanding — and often far short.” …
Inside Earth’s most alien vision. …
“We are never simply seeing what’s ‘really there,’ stripped bare of our own anticipations or insulated from our own past experiences. Instead, all human experience is part phantom — the product of deep-set predictions.” …
“We are carriers of spirit… into a future unknown, unknowable, and in continual creation.” …
“This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to it.” …
“Once upon a time your fore-fathers made no scruple about not only killing, but also eating their relations.” …
“To despair over oneself, in despair to want to be rid of oneself, is the formula for all despair.” …
How to grow “absorbed into the being or existence of the universe.” …
“The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one’s feelings, one’s work, one’s beliefs. It can be approximated only to the extent that conflicts are resolved.” …
“The true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing.” …
“Neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer.” …
“Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so.” …
How to “include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border.” …
The psychological machinery of our commonest coping mechanism for the terror of hurt, rejection, and abandonment. …
“We’ve come this far, survived this much. What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder?” …
Notes on the eternal dialogue between art and science in our yearning to know reality. …
Searching for “that principle which keys us deeply into the pattern of all life.” …
“Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back.” …
“Self-knowledge… is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous growth. In this sense, to work at ourselves becomes not only the prime moral obligation, but… the prime moral privilege.” …
The neuroscience, physics, and philosophy of freedom in a universe of fixed laws. …
Soulful art from stories that speak “to the childhood of all times and all races.” …
“Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged.” …