Monday 31 December 2012


Sunday 30 December 2012

The ego that sees a "thou" 
is not the same ego that sees an "it."

Saturday 29 December 2012


Friday 28 December 2012

If only I had the time. 
To tell you how I climbed
Out of the darkness. 
Out of my mind.
And I come sliding 
where I've been hiding
Out of the heart of a child.

Thursday 27 December 2012


Wednesday 26 December 2012

We are all born as animals 
and live the life that animals live: 
we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. 
There is, however, another order of living, 
which the animals do not know, 
that of awe before the mystery of being, 
the 'mysterium tremendum et fascinans,' 
that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. 
That is the birth – the Virgin Birth – 
in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.

Tuesday 25 December 2012


Monday 24 December 2012

Love as passion; love as com-passion… 
in both the individual is torn out of himself 
and opened to an experience of rediscovered identity 
in a larger, more abiding format.

Sunday 23 December 2012


Saturday 22 December 2012

If you do follow your bliss, 
you put yourself on a kind of track 
that has been there all the while 
waiting for you, 
and the life you ought to be living 
is the one you are living

Friday 21 December 2012


Thursday 20 December 2012

The hero's journey is a symbol that binds 
in the original sense of the word, 
two distant ideas: 
the spiritual quest of the ancients; 
with the modern search for identity.

Wednesday 19 December 2012


Tuesday 18 December 2012

God is a metaphor 
for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. 
It's as simple as that.

Monday 17 December 2012


Sunday 16 December 2012

There are some things so serious 
you have to laugh at them.

Saturday 15 December 2012


Friday 14 December 2012

Freedom is what you do 
with what's been done to you. 

Thursday 13 December 2012


Wednesday 12 December 2012

Poetry is not the thing said but a way of saying it. 
The intellect is not the fount of poetry, 
may hinder its production, 
and cannot even be trusted to recognise poetry when it is produced. 
Art is not, like science, a logic of references 
but a release from references and rendition of immediate experience: 
a presentation of forms, images, or ideas
in such a way that they will communicate,
not primarily a thought or even a feeling, 
but an impact.

Tuesday 11 December 2012


Monday 10 December 2012

There is no hope unmingled with fear, 
and no fear unmingled with hope.

Sunday 9 December 2012


Saturday 8 December 2012

I don't have to have faith. 
I have experience.

Friday 7 December 2012


Thursday 6 December 2012

Equipped with his five senses, 
man explores the universe around him 
and calls the adventure Science.

Wednesday 5 December 2012


Tuesday 4 December 2012

Science is a way of thinking 
much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Monday 3 December 2012


Sunday 2 December 2012

There is an old standard saying about the arts: 
'You need to learn all the rules, and then forget them' ... 
In writing a book, 
you are moving along on the wave of your inspiration and intuition, 
and then you come to a difficult passage, 
an area you have to cover in order to get from here to there, 
and your momentum stops. 
That’s when you have to bring in the rules.

Saturday 1 December 2012


Friday 30 November 2012

Nothing is divine
but what is agreeable to reason.

Thursday 29 November 2012


Wednesday 28 November 2012

I would never die for my beliefs 
because I might be wrong.

Tuesday 27 November 2012


Monday 26 November 2012

The basic story of the hero journey involves 
giving up where you are, 
going into the realm of adventure, 
coming to some kind of symbolically rendered realisation, 
and then returning to the field of normal life.

Sunday 25 November 2012


Saturday 24 November 2012

Heat not a furnace for your own foe so hot 
That it do singe yourself.

Friday 23 November 2012


Thursday 22 November 2012

The fluid aspect of impermanence is itself the absolute state.

Wednesday 21 November 2012


Tuesday 20 November 2012

Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. 
Tension, 
a lack of honesty, 
and a sense of unreality 
come from following the wrong force in your life.

Monday 19 November 2012


Sunday 18 November 2012

Since imagination comes out of one biological ground, 
it is bound to produce certain themes. 
Dreams are dreams. 
There are certain characteristics of dreams that can be enumerated, 
no matter who is dreaming them.

Saturday 17 November 2012


Friday 16 November 2012

The theory of our modern technic shows 
that nothing is as practical as theory.

Thursday 15 November 2012


Wednesday 14 November 2012

When you follow your passion, 
society’s help is gone. 
You must be very careful. 
You’re completely on your own.

Tuesday 13 November 2012


Monday 12 November 2012

Now, the realms of the gods and demons
— heaven, purgatory, hell —
are of the substance of dreams. 
Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.

Sunday 11 November 2012


Saturday 10 November 2012

Evidently it is not science that has diminished man
or divorced him from divinity.
On the contrary... 
we are to recognize in this whole universe
a reflection magnified of our own most inward nature; 
so that we are indeed its ears, its eyes, its thinking, and its speech…
and, by the same token, 
participants here and now in an act of creation 
that is continuous in the whole infinitude 
of that space of our mind 
through which the planets fly, 
and our fellows of earth now among them.

Friday 9 November 2012


Thursday 8 November 2012

The goal of life is rapture. 
Art is the way we experience it.

Wednesday 7 November 2012


Tuesday 6 November 2012

We are the sensing organs of the Earth. 
We are the senses of the universe. 
We have it all right here within us. 
And the deities that we once thought were out there, 
we now know, 
were projected out of ourselves. 
They are the products of our human imagination seeking to interpret, 
one way or another, 
the mysteries of the universe....

Monday 5 November 2012


Sunday 4 November 2012

Life consuming life: 
that is the essence of its being, 
which is forever a becoming.

Saturday 3 November 2012


Friday 2 November 2012

Instead of clearing his own heart 
the zealot tries to clear the world.

Thursday 1 November 2012


Wednesday 31 October 2012

When the intellect tries to explicate an image, 
one can never exhaust its meaning, 
one can never exhaust its possibility. 
Images don't essentially mean anything: 
they just are, 
just as you are. 
They talk to some kernel in you that is.

Tuesday 30 October 2012


Monday 29 October 2012

Life is like arriving late for a movie, 
having to figure out what was going on 
without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, 
and then being unexpectedly called away 
before you find out how it ends.

Sunday 28 October 2012


Saturday 27 October 2012

This is the threat to our lives. 
We all face it. 
We all operate in our society in relation to a system. 
Now is the system going to eat you up and relieve you of your humanity 
or are you going to be able to use the system to human purposes? ... 
If the person doesn't listen to the demands of his own spiritual and heart life 
and insists on a certain program, 
you're going to have a schizophrenic crack-up. 
The person has put himself off centre. 
He has aligned himself with a programmatic life 
and it's not the one the body's interested in at all. 
And the world's full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

Friday 26 October 2012


Thursday 25 October 2012

If myth is translated into literal fact, 
then myth is a lie. 
But if you read it as a reflection of the world inside you, 
then it's true.

Wednesday 24 October 2012


Tuesday 23 October 2012

It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, 
clothed with many plants of many kinds, 
with birds singing on the bushes, 
with various insects flitting about, 
and with worms crawling through the damp earth, 
and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, 
so different from each other, 
and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, 
have all been produced by laws acting around us.

Monday 22 October 2012


Sunday 21 October 2012

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, 
strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Saturday 20 October 2012


Friday 19 October 2012

Theory guides. 
Experiment decides.

Thursday 18 October 2012


Wednesday 17 October 2012

Chance favours the prepared mind.

Tuesday 16 October 2012


Monday 15 October 2012

Science is not formal logic —
it needs the free play of the mind 
in as great a degree as any other creative art.

Sunday 14 October 2012


Saturday 13 October 2012

Myth makes a connection
between our waking consciousness
and the mystery of the universe. 
It gives us a map or picture of the universe 
and allows us to see ourselves
in relationship to nature…

Friday 12 October 2012

Thursday 11 October 2012

I remember where I came from

Wednesday 10 October 2012


Tuesday 9 October 2012

When you are in accord with nature, 
nature will yield its bounty.

Monday 8 October 2012


Sunday 7 October 2012

In choosing your god, 
you choose your way of looking at the universe.

Saturday 6 October 2012


Friday 5 October 2012

I think the idea of life after death is a bad idea. 
It distracts you from appreciating the uniqueness of the here and now, 
the moment you are living.

Thursday 4 October 2012


Wednesday 3 October 2012

I do not know what I may appear to the world; 
but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, 
and diverting myself in now and then finding of a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Tuesday 2 October 2012


Monday 1 October 2012

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Sunday 30 September 2012


Saturday 29 September 2012

We're in a freefall into future. 
We don't know where we're going. 
Things are changing so fast, 
and always when you're going through a long tunnel, 
anxiety comes along.
And all you have to do
to transform your hell into a paradise 
is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. 
It's a very interesting shift of perspective
and that's all it is... 
joyful participation in the sorrows of the world
and everything changes.

Friday 28 September 2012


Thursday 27 September 2012

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Wednesday 26 September 2012


Tuesday 25 September 2012

Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.

Monday 24 September 2012


Sunday 23 September 2012

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; 
he studies it because he delights in it, 
and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Saturday 22 September 2012