Greatest Thought

"The most important function of science is to awaken the cosmicreligious feeling and keep it alive. Itis very difficult to explain the feeling to anyone who is entirely without it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims, and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both innature and in the world of thought. He looks upon individual existence as a sortof prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole."
-Albert Einstein,
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, where as imagination embraces the entire world stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
-Albert Einstein
"My conclusion is that taking the next evolutionary step, the Archaic Revival, the rebirthof the Goddess, and the ending of profane history are agendas that implicitly contain within themselves the notion or our reinvolvement with and the emergence of the vegetable mind. That same mind that coaxed us into self-reflecting language now offers us the boundless landscapes of the imagination. Without such a relationship to psychedelic exopheromones regulating our symbiotic relationship with the plant kingdom, we stand outside of an understanding of planetary purpose.And understandingof planetary purpose may be the major contribution that we can make to the evolutionary process. Returning to the bosom of the planetary partnership means trading the point of view of the ego for the intuitional translinguistic understanding of the maternal matrix."
-Terence McKenna, The Archaic Revival
" Whether humanity is to continue and prosper on spaceship Earth depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked, are humans a worthwhile invention?"
-Buckminster Fuller
" Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
-Albert Einstein
" Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yetof it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory."
-Stephen Vincent Benet
" Understand that a self-centered attitude is the source of all suffering, and concern for others is the source of all happiness and goodness."
-The Dalai Lama, The Way to Freedom
" The wind can blow one way but actually move you in another, and likesailing, you can usethe wind in the wrong direction and still get somewhere you want to go."
-Pete Seeger quoted in Whole Earth Review, spring 2001.
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" I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience,compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world."
-Lao-Tzu
" In art and dream
may you proceed with abandon.
In life may you proceed with
balance and stealth."
-Patti Smith
" God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity."
-Alfred Jarry
It is in the stillness, in the silence, that the word of God is to be heard. There is no better avenue of approach to thisWord than through stillness, through silence. It is to be heard there as it is - in that unself-consciousness, for when one is aware of nothing, that word is imparted tohim and clearly revealed. "
-Meister Eckhart, from "The Sermons" in Meister Eckhart.
" Life 's most persistent question is: What are you doing for others?"
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
" Show me a sane man and I will cure him."
-Carl Jung
" Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. "
-Goethe
" Buddha did not suffer from fear ofsuccess. He was one of those rare characters, like Joan of Arc or Lawrence of Arabiaor Pablo Picasso, who know beyond a shadow of a doubt that their lives hold a particular destiny. For people like this,life is just a matter of waiting, patiently, for the appropriate moment to come before stepping, in sandals or boxer shorts, into the mythos."
-Jeff Greenwald, Shopping forBuddhas
" DNA is a master of transformation, just like mythical serpents. The cell-based life DNA informs made the air we breathe, thelandscape we see, and the mind-boggling diversity of living beings of which weare part. In 4 billionyears, it has multiplied itself into an incalculable number of species, while remaining exactly the same."
-Jeremy Narby, The Cosmic Serpent.