Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. —Niels Bohr

 

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Rather than to ask what is the meaning of this universe, we would have to say that the universe is its meaning. As this changes, the universe changes along with all that is in it. What I mean by ‘the universe’ is ‘the whole of reality’ and what is beyond. And of course, we are referring not just to the meaning of the universe for us, but its meaning ‘for itself’, or the meaning of the whole for itself. 

Similarly there is no point in asking the meaning of life, as life too is its meaning, which is self-referential and capable of changing, basically, when this meaning changes through a creative perception of a new and more encompassing meaning. 

You could also ask another question: What is the meaning of creativity itself? As with all other fundamental questions we cannot give a final answer, but we have to constantly see afresh. For the present we can say that creativity is not only the fresh perception of new meanings, and the ultimate unfoldment of this perception within the manifest and the somatic, but I would say that it is ultimately the action of the infinite in the sphere of the finite — that is, this meaning goes to infinite depths.


—David Bohm
Unfolding Meaning: A Weekend of Dialogue with David Bohm

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We are the creators and creatures of each other, 

causing and bearing each other’s burden.


—Nisargadatta Maharaj

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come to the conclusion: I am unborn, I was unborn and I shall remain unborn. —Sri Nisargadatta

   

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Some of the difficulty with quantum mechanics has to reside in the problem of coming to terms with the simple fact that there is no such thing as information in and of itself, independent of the apparatus necessary to its perception. 

There were no starry skies prior to the first sentient and ocular being to behold them. Before that all was blackness and silence.

And yet it moved.

—Cormac McCarthy

The Passenger

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We live in illusion and the appearance of things. 

There is a reality. We are that reality. 

When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. 

That is all.


—Kalu Rinpoche

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If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere. —Hermes Trismegistus

    

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Leave it all behind you. Forget it.
Go forth, unburdened with ideas and beliefs.

Abandon all verbal structures, all relative truth, all tangible objectives.


—Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Suppose that
everything that greens and grows
should blacken in one moment, flower and branch.
I think that I would find your blinded hand. 

Suppose that your hand and mine were lost among numberless cries
in a city of fire when the earth is afire,
I must still believe that I would find your blinded hand. 

Through flames everywhere
consuming earth and air
I must believe that somehow, if only one moment were offered,
I would
find your hand. 

I know as, of course, you know
the immeasurable wilderness that would exist
in the moment of fire.
But I would hear your cry and you’d hear mine and each of us
would find
the other’s hand. 

We know
that it might not be so.
But for this quiet moment, if only for this
moment
and against all reason
let us believe, and believe in our hearts,
that somehow it would be so.
I’d hear your cry, you mine –
And each of us would find a blinded hand.


—Tennessee Williams
Your Blinded Hand

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Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday,

separate, in the evening.


—Rainer Maria Rilke

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