William Blake

There Is No Natural religion

"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour."

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"What is now proved was once only imagined."

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The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite.

Conclusion: If it were not for the Poetic or Prophetic character. the Philosophic & Experimental would soon be at the ratio of all things & stand still, unable to do other than repeat the same dull round over again.

Application: He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God. He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only.

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"To generalize is to be an idiot."

Rene Daumal

Last Letter to his Wife

I am dead because I lack desire,

I lack desire because I think I possess.

I think I possess because I do not try to give.

In trying to give, you see that you have nothing;

Seeing that you have nothing, you try to give of yourself;

Trying to give of yourself, you see that you are nothing:

Seeing that you are nothing, you desire to become;

In desiring to become, you begin to live.

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"Should I never speak of the Unknowable because that would be a lie? Should I speak of the Unknowable because I know that I come from it and I am bound to bear witness to it?"

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...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear? … We are afraid that if we see ourselves we will not see anything very great. Our humbug self is afraid of being seen for what it is. It is fear of this awful exposure that makes us cover ourselves with makeup and put on phony facial expressions.

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The error lies in disconnection from the source, and hence from the sister branches of knowledge, and this doctrinal disconnection finds its reflection in the psychological disconnection one notices only too often in the scientist as an individual. While the scientific mind is progressing toward its destiny, the scientist's mind is usually very disappointing.

Matila Ghyka

Nombre d'or

"Lorsque la puissance (divine) se fait un centre, elle cree un nouvel univers, microcosme, et tous les autres se deplacent pour gravier autour de lui".

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"La forme est la loi en vertu de laquelle le motif se répéte."

Mies van der Rohe

Only life intensity has form intensity

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Matter is not the object but the condition of experience.

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The most important things can anyway not be discussed

Anna F. Lemkow

Thus we have a dual nature - that which is universal in us and that which is particular. Our felt need, when we bring it to consciousness, is to give expression both to our uniqueness and to our universality or sense of unity with others (and also with nature). Again, this pair of opposites is not irreconcilable. Paradoxically, we experience our unity with others when we look deeply enough into ourselves.

Teilhard de Chardin

The Unity of All Things

My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him." Moreover, that unity reaches back in time and continues into the future: "If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.

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"By its structure Omega, in its ultimate principle, can only be a distinct Center radiating at the core of a system of centers; a grouping in which the personalization of the All and personalizations of the elements reach their maximum, simultaneously and without merging, under the influence of a supremely autonomous focus of union."

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

"He no longer saw the face of his friend Siddhartha. Instead he saw other faces, many faces, a long series, a continuous stream of faces—hundreds, thousands, which all came and disappeared and yet all seemed to be there at the same time, which all continually changed and renewed themselves and which were yet all Siddhartha… He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships to each other, all helping each other, loving, hating, and destroying each other and become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another."

Paul

Bible - Romans

.Forget about deciding what's right for each other.  Here's what you need to be concerned about:  that you don't get in the way of someone else, making life more difficult than it already is.  I'm convinced -- Jesus convinced me! -- that everything as it is in itself is holy.  We, of course, by the way we treat it or talk about it, can contaminate it.

Houdini.

If the wish be father to the thought, it is mother to the hallucination of the sense.

Copyright Jan Machalek