Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple, is always a minor miracle, since it can never be fully explained by the material instr...
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the presen...
Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves being and remaining oneself and at the same time admitting and transforming into on...
It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as Darwinian biology has explaining the unity and integration of irreducibly complex functions. Practical and theo...
The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you inten...
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which...
We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we distinguish between the brain events and the mental phenomena, and the more wonderful do both the brain event...
The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individua...
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.
I could see us doing solo material in the future.
When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.
God is the source of life, honour and wealth.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Earth is the source of light.
Words are the source of misunderstandings.
* Love heals violence and all its sources
Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
Asking for blessings,receiving blessings, becoming a blessing,becoming a source of blessings
