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Turning and turning in the widening gyre   
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst   
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.   
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.   
The darkness drops again; but now I know   
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

–William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

“But the kingdom of God is within you and it is without you. If you know yourselves, then you will be known. and you will know that you are the son of the Living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty. and you are poverty.”

–Jesus

‘I am the universal âtman, I am the ALL! I am transcendent, nondual, unrelated, infinite knowledge. Sheer bliss am I, indivisible.”

–disciple of Shankara

“You pervade the universe and the universe exists in you. You are by nature Pure Consciousness. Do not be small-minded.”

–Ashtravakra

“Carl Jung has written somewhere that the function of religion is to protect us from an experience of God.”

–Joseph Campbell in The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and Religion

“All things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things right and some things wrong.”

–Heraclitus