A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself. —Niels Bohr

    

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One can no longer maintain the division between the observer and the observed (which is implicit in the atomistic view that regards each of these as separate aggregates of atoms). Rather, both observer and observed are merging and interpenetrating aspects of one whole reality, which is indivisible and unanalysable.

Reality is what we take to be true. 

What we take to be true is what we believe. 

What we believe is based upon our perceptions. 

What we perceive depends upon what we look for. 

What we look for depends upon what we think. 

What we think depends upon what we perceive. 

What we perceive determines what we believe. 

What we believe determines what we take to be true. 

What we take to be true is our reality.


—David Bohm
Wholeness and the Implicit Order

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Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes
nonstop from mitosis to now.
Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance
inside themselves without you. Go to sleep. 

Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch
by inch America is giving itself
to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness
lap at your sides. Give darkness an inch.
You aren’t alone. All of the continents used to be
one body. You aren’t alone. Go to sleep. 

Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, 
down and down.


—Albert Goldbarth
The Sciences Sing a Lullaby

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

 

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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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self(consciousness

   

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Once you have recognized that there are other realities, other than the one you have been familiar with, your life starts to change. 

I don't care whether you got it from a joint; whether you got it from trauma; whether you got it from surfing; whether you got it from temple or church. 

Whatever thing you did that took you beyond yourself. Whatever it was, if you acknowledged it as real, as what you have started from, you are on the way. That is what is known as awakening.

—Ram Dass

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I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. 

But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won’t get us very far.

—Niels Bohr

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Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don’t look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. 

Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change; there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. 

You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.

—Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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