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God is creating the entire universe, fully and totally, in this present now. Everything God created … God creates now all at once.—Meister Eckhart, Christian mystic
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The Tao is the sustaining Life-force and the mother of all things; from it all things rise and fall without cease.
—Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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found together in The Physics of God
—Joseph Selbie
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A knower of the Truth
travels without leaving a trace
speaks without causing harm
gives without keeping an account
The door he shuts, though having no lock,
cannot be opened
The knot he ties, though using no cord,
cannot be undone
If you think otherwise,
despite your knowledge, you have blundered
—Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching
is it true
that your mind is sometimes like
a battering ram
running all through the city,
shouting so madly inside and out
about the ten thousand things
that do not matter?
—Hafiz
Why should you bear your load on your head when you are traveling on a train?
It carries you and your load whether the load is on your head or on the floor of the train. You are not lessening the burden of the train by keeping it on your head but only straining yourself unnecessarily.
Similar is the sense of doership in the world by individuals.
—Ramana Maharshi
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.
—Nisargadatta Maharaj
Without stirring abroad,
one can know the whole world;
Without looking out of the window
one can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes the less one knows.
—Lao Tzu
I like to live in the sound of water,
in the feel of mountain air. A sharp
reminder hits me: this world is still alive,
it stretches out there shivering toward its own
creation, and I'm part of it. Even my breathing
enters into this elaborate give-and-take,
this bowing to sun and moon, day or night,
winter, summer, storm, still - this tranquil
chaos that seems to be going somewhere.
This wilderness with a great peacefulness in it.
This motionless turmoil, this everything dance.
—William Stafford
Even in Quiet Places
The ego says that the world is vast, and that the particles which form it are tiny. When tiny particles join, it says, the vast world appears. When the vast world disperses, it says, tiny particles appear.
The ego is entranced by all these names and ideas, but the subtle truth is that world and particle are the same; neither one vast, neither one tiny. Every thing is equal to every other thing. Names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them.
Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered: they struggle frantically to know whether things are large or small, whether or not there is a purpose to joining or dispersing, whether the universe is blind and mechanical or the divine creation of a conscious being.
In reality there are no grounds for having beliefs or making comments about such things. Look behind them instead, and you will discern the deep, silent, complete truth of the Tao. Embrace it, and your bewilderment vanishes.
—Lao Tzu (attributed)
Hua Hu Ching
My brother used to ask the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless but it is right; for all is like the ocean, all things flow and touch each other; a disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive the Truth.
And first we must know that each of the petals has eighty-four thousand veins and that each vein gives eighty-four thousand lights.
—Yukio Mishima
Death in Midsummer, and Other Stories
.Tao engenders One, One engenders Two,
Two engenders Three,
Three engenders the ten thousand things.
—Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching
Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo version
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Particle physics has taught us that every atom in the periodic table of the elements is an arrangement of just three basic particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons. Every object you have ever seen or bumped into in your life is made of just those three particles.
At a fundamental level, there aren’t separate “living things” and “nonliving things,” “things here on Earth” and “things up in the sky,” matter” and “spirit.” There is just the basic stuff of reality, appearing to us in many different forms.
Naturalism is a philosophy of unity and patterns, describing all of reality as a seamless web. [It] presents a hugely grandiose claim, and we have every right to be sceptical. When we look into the eyes of another person, it doesn’t seem that what we’re seeing is simply a collection of atoms, some sort of immensely complicated chemical reaction.
At the moment, the dominant image of the world remains one in which human life is cosmically special and significant, something more than mere matter in motion. We need to do better at reconciling how we talk about life’s meaning with what we know about the scientific image of our universe.
There’s an older thought experiment called the Ship of Theseus. Theseus, the legendary founder of Athens, had an impressive ship in which he had fought numerous battles. To honor him, the citizens of Athens preserved his ship in their port. Occasionally a plank or part of the mast would decay beyond repair and have to be replaced. We have a question of identity: is it the same ship after we’ve replaced one of the planks? If you think it is what about after we’ve replaced all of the planks, one by one? And (as Thomas Hobbes went on to ask) what if we then took all the old planks and built a ship out of them? Would that one then suddenly become the Ship of Theseus?
Narrowly speaking, these are all questions about identity. When is one thing “the same thing” as some other thing? But more broadly, they are questions about ontology, our basic view of what exists in the world.What kinds of things are there at all?—Sean Carroll
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and The Universe Itself
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At the quantum level, no part of the body lives apart from the rest. There are no wires holding together the molecules of your arteries, just as there are no visible connections binding together the stars in a galaxy.Yet arteries and galaxies are both securely held together, in a seamless, perfect design. The invisible bonds that you cannot examine under a microscope are quantum in nature; without this “hidden physiology,” your visible physiology could not exist. It would never have been more than a random collection of molecules.
―Deepak ChopraPerfect Heath
When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
.The tiny particles which form the vast universe are not tiny at all.
Neither is the vast universe vast.
These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife,
always chipping away at the Tao,
trying to render it graspable and manageable.
But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and
that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable.
There is, however, this consolation:
She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her
fingertips.
—Lao Tzu
Hua Hu Ching
There is no insurmountable solitude.
All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song — but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.
—Pablo Neruda
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Cannot you see clearly that everything that appears to happen happens in consciousness?It is all imaginary, a temporary hallucination.Don’t be led astray, none of it reflects your true state.—Nisargadatta
They asked al-Hallaj, "To which religious School do you belong?
he answered, "God's own."
He who limned
a thousand worlds with paint -
you layabout! - do you expect
He'll use your color or mine?
Our paints and tints
are but opinions and fantasy,
He is colorless
and we must adopt His hue.
Look: a shadow lies crooked upon the ground because the very earth is laid rough; but no, that crookedness is straightness itself, for the perfection, the "straightness" of the eyebrow is in its sinuous curve.
Only because it is bent
is this piece of wood a bow.
Reality is a sphere: wherever you place your finger,
there is its dead center.
—Fakhruddin 'Iraqi
Divine Flashes
In the universe, there are things that are known,and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.—William Blake
A knower of the Truth
travels without leaving a trace
speaks without causing harm
gives without keeping an account
The door he shuts, though having no lock,
cannot be opened
The knot he ties, though using no cord,
cannot be undone
If you think otherwise,
despite your knowledge, you have blundered
—Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching
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Dr. John Hagelin is a world-renowned Quantum Physicist, educator, author, science and public policy expert and president of the David Lynch Foundation.
Dr. Hagelin has conducted pioneering research at the European Center for Particle Physics and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and is responsible for the development of a highly successful Grand Unified Field Theory based on the Super String.
His scientific contributions in the fields of Electroweak Unification, Grand Unification, Supersymmetry and Cosmology include some of the most cited references in the physical sciences. Dr. Hagelin received his doctorate from Harvard University.
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Live in accordance with the nature of things.
In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, go deep in the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In ruling be just.
In action, watch the timing.
No fight: No blame.
One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things.They move in harmony with the present moment, always knowing the truth of justwhat to do.
—Lao TzuTao Te Ching, Verse 8
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Heaven and Earth are impartial;
they treat all of creation as straw dogs.
The Master doesn't take sides;
she treats everyone like a straw dog.
The space between Heaven and Earth is like a bellows;
it is empty, yet has not lost its power.
The more it is used, the more it produces;
the more you talk of it, the less you comprehend.
It is better not to speak of things you do not understand.
—Lao Tzu
from the Tao Te Ching
J. H. McDonald version
