“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.”
~ Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant and speaker with the dead. Wikipedia
“I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I’m still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.”
–Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury was a celebrated American author and screenwriter who worked across genres like fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery. His unique style combined the poetic imagery of Thomas Wolfe with the crispness of Ernest Hemingway. Bradbury’s work explored themes like censorship, racism, technology, and the importance of imagination. He’s considered a significant figure in both American literature and science fiction. (Wikipedia.org)
“You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.”
~ Woody Allen
Heywood “Woody” Allen, born Allen Stewart Konigsberg in 1935, is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, playwright, and author. His career spans over 50 years and includes iconic comedies like Bananas and Sleeper, as well as serious dramas like Interiors. Allen is known for his cerebral style that mixes humor and satire, and his neurotic, literate characters. (Wikipedia.org)
“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.”
~ Ram Dass
Ram Dass, also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and writer. His best-selling 1971 book Be Here Now, which has been described by multiple reviewers as “seminal”, helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West. Wikipedia
“Behold, now, let my heart tell You what it was seeking there, that I should be gratuitously wanton, having no inducement to evil but the evil itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own error – not that for which I erred, but the error itself. Base soul, falling from Your firmament to utter destruction – not seeking anything through the shame but the shame itself!”
~ Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo was a Christian theologian and philosopher from Thagaste, Numidia Cirtensis and the Bishop of Hippo Regius. Wikipedia
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a prominent American essayist, poet, philosopher, and leader of the 19th century Transcendentalist movement. His essays and lectures, such as “Self-Reliance” and “The American Scholar”, challenged conventional thinking and promoted independence of thought and self-discovery. Emerson’s philosophy of Transcendentalism emphasized the divine presence in nature and the potential for studying nature to reveal God’s nature. (Wikipedia.org)
“Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs.These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.”
~ Kuan Yin
Quan Yin (also spelled Guanyin or Kuan Yin) is the revered East Asian bodhisattva of mercy and compassion. Her full Chinese name, Guanshiyin, means “The One Who Perceives the Sounds of the World”. She chose to delay entering Nirvana to stay behind and help relieve the suffering of all beings. [1, 2, 3, 4]
““What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label.”
~ Yalom
Irvin David Yalom is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction. Wikipedia
