" . . . My predecessors have invariably said, 'My belief is right and yours is wrong; my customs are worthy, yours are ignoble; my dress is decent, yours is not; think as I think, talk as I talk, do as I do, or you will be wretched, poor, sick, disgraced and damned; besides which, I shall cut your head off, burn you alive, starve you, imprison you, ostracize you and otherwise make you sorry you did not agree to be a good boy.' The essence of every missionary message has been to assimilate the taught to the teacher; and it has always been accompanied by bribes and threats. My message is exactly opposed to any of this. I say to each man and woman, 'You are unique and sovereign, the centre of an universe. However right I may be in thinking as I do, you may be equally right in thinking otherwise. You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people. You must not even take the outward signs of success as indications that the course of action which has produced them would serve your turn. For one thing, my coronet might not suit your complexion but give you a headache; for another, the measures which I took to obtain that coronet might not succeed in your case."
― Aleister Crowley
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― Lao Tzu
"[A computer is] like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy."
― Joseph Campbell
"A divination should be regarded as a weather vane which shows which way the winds of the invisible forces are blowing; but it should be always remembered that a weather-vane was not meant to determine the course that a ship is to take; it merely indicates how best to trim the sails."
― Dion Fortune, Sane Occultism
"A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing -a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit."
― Ken Wilber
"A good traveler leaves no track."
― Lao Tzu
"A human being... experiences himself... as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
― Albert Einstein, Quoted by Ramm Dass in How Can I Help
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend upon the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving."
― Albert Einstein
"A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. 'Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you;' But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves'."
― Lao Tzu
"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
― James Joyce, Ulysses
"Accepting science's achievements does not require us to banish all other contributions to human knowledge."
― Rachel Pollack, 78 Degrees of Wisdom, Part 2
"After the world shall have slept away the intoxication of her poisoned and stupefying chalice, and with an open heart, bare head, and naked feet shall merrily and joyfully go forth to meet the sun rising in the morning."
― Confessio Fraternitatis R.C. ad Eruditos Europae
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
― George Bernard Shaw
"All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other."
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, from "The Silver Key"
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force . . . We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter."
― Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning Father of Quantum Theory
"All speech, action, and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time ― namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
― Galileo Galilei
"Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness."
― Russell Targ
"An end to the pretence, and lying hypocrisy of Christianity. An end to the servile virtues, and superstitious restrictions. An end to the slave morality. An end to prudery and shame, to guilt and sin, for these are of the only evil under the sun, that is fear. An end to all authority that is not based on courage and manhood, to the authority of lying priests, conniving judges, blackmailing police, and an end to the servile flattery and cajolery of mobs, the coronations of mediocrities, the ascension of dolts.An end to conscription, compulsion, regimentation, and the tyranny of false laws."
― Jack Parsons, John Whiteside Parsons
"An inner concern with beauty would be sufficient to take care of the law. If you are animated by a spirit of goodwill, that's your law right there."
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being."
― Carl Gustav Jung
"As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes."
― Terence McKenna
"Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest."
― Dogen
"Chance favors the prepared mind..."
― Lewis Pasteur
"Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Curiouser and curiouser!"
― Lewis Carroll
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
― Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Delight is a secret. And the secret is this: to grow quiet and listen; to stop thinking, stop moving, almost stop breathing; to create an inner stillness in which, like mice in a deserted house, capacities and awareness too wayward and fugitive for everyday use may delicately emerge."
― Alan McGlashan, The Savage and Beautiful Country
"Do you remember how electrical currents and "unseen waves" were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy."
― Albert Einstein
"Don't browbeat the animal that is your vehicle. Treat it gently, feed it regularly, let it play outside once in a while, keep it from getting run over, and so forth. If you do this with your pet animal vehicle, it will be happy, and because you're stuck with it, you will be happy, too."
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"Drugs are not a real escape. Once you're on the flypaper, you're stuck. You can take drugs or booze, but you're still on the flypaper."
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it."
― Jelauddin Rumi
"Fate is also an illusion, a dodge to cover up the fact that we, with our limited vision, cannot see the inner connection between all things."
― Rachel Pollack, 78 Degrees of Wisdom, Part 1
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
― Albert Einstein
"For a bank-note to have value it must be redeemable in gold at any moment. For a revelation to have value it must be valid in a spiritual crisis"
― Dion Fortune, Sane Occultism
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler."
― Henry David Thoreau
"Go soothingly on the slippery road, for therein lurks the skid demon."
― Chinese road sign, mentioned in Sallie Nichols book: Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey
"Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish."
― Lao-Tzu
"Gravity sometimes doesn't work. Some things are both waves and particles... at the same time. Electrons simply disappear... all the time."
― The Book What The Bleep Do We Know
"Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)
"Having armies is a habit, as though we couldn't live from day to day without having a mortal enemy."
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"He regards reparatory chastisement as a benefit and does not comprehend the meaning of vengeance"
― Eliphas Levi, The Mysteries of Magic
"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
― Albert Einstein
"Honni soit qui mal y pense"
― the literal translation from the Old French would be something like: "Shame be to him who thinks evil of it". The phrase has attained its imporance through an incident where a garter of the Countess of Salisbury was exposed during a dance with the English King Richard III and he protected her, or at least her dignity by proclaiming the statement, important to various Pagan traditions and of course, such incident being also the instigation of the famous British Order of the Garter, of which it is the motto.
"Hour by hour resolve fully, like a Roman and a man, to do what comes to hand with correct and natural dignity, and with humanity, independence and justice..."
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become-to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress."
― Niels Bohr
"I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence."
― Socrates
"I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
― William Faulkner, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
"I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible."
― William James
"I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world."
― Helen Keller
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
― Galileo Galilei
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
― Chang Tzu
"I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science."
― Albert Einstein
"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)
"I like the Tower. Yeah, really; the Tower. It reminds me that you don't really own anything you can't carry at a dead run . . . "
― Attribution unknown other than: [frostfyr@sure.net]
"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details."
― Albert Einstein
"Iconic visual programming languages are a Tarot... the pictorial summarization of all possibilities, activated for divination by juxtaposition and mutual influence."
― Timothy Leary, The Eternal Philosophy of Chaos, in the magazine Magical Blend , issue 44
"If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: 'I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.' If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane."
― Ramtha
"If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine"
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
"If people prefer pinchbeck gold to honest copper, they must not be surprised if the world breaks their false gold in half and throws the pieces back at them."
― Dion Fortune, Sane Occultism
"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet."
― Niels Bohr
"If we want to penetrate into deeper issues of occultism it is not enough that we should approach it out of intellectual curiosity; this will reveal us no more than its outer form. The Occult Path is not so much a subject of study as a way of life."
― Dion Fortune, Sane Occultism
"If you believe in something, no proof is required. If you don't believe, no proof is sufficient."
― Unknown
"If you believe in something, no proof is required. If you don't believe, no proof is sufficient."
― Stacey Allen McGee, Founder of The ARC ~ Alternate Realities Center
"If you don't form the specific image of what you expect to get, you'll get the average, the same that everybody else gets"
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"If you think about leaving the body or doing away with it, that's a burden too. When you say 'Bad dog!' to your pet, it feels terrible. A lot of people say something like this to their body, putting it down with negative suggestions."
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Wisdom of the Sands
"In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want."
― Marianne Williamson
"It gives me a deep comforting sense that 'things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.'"
― Helen Keller
"It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944))
"It is now safe to enshrine those persons whom once it would have been very dangerous to know -- neither Washington, nor Jefferson, nor Henry nor Paine would have been 'safe' or 'secure' associations in the days of the revolutions."
― John Whiteside Parsons in Freedom is a Lonely Star
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
― Giordano Bruno
"Know thyself."
― Socrates
"Knowledge is structured in consciousness. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness ― enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Let us look upon the buffetings of fate as the barkings, and if need be the shrewd nippings of the sheepdog, and the stick-wavings and shouts of the shepherd trying to induce us to enter the green pastures awaiting us, and cease to consider them as the blind thwarting of our legitimate desires by an unkind Fate."
― Dion Fortune, Sane Occultism
"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but rather a mystery to be lived."
― Unknown
"Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith; the true Magi are Men-Gods, in virtue of their intimate union with the divine principle. They are without fears and without desires, dominated by no falsehood, sharing no error, loving without illusion, suffering without impatience, reposing in the quietude of eternal thought."
― Eliphas Levi, The Mysteries of Magic
"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
― Claude Bernard
"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
― Chief Seattle
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on."
― Winston Churchill
"Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding."
― Freeman Dyson
"More and more of us are becoming fuzzy logic shamans and digital alchemists..."
― Timothy Leary, The Eternal Philosophy of Chaos, in the magazine Magical Blend , issue 44.
"My main objective is to change the fear that most people have about ghosts and replace it with understanding and compassion for these wandering souls."
― Patti Starr, CGH
"No one can teach occult science who is not able to draw aside the curtain and reveal the empty shrine, who does not know that the occult doctrines are a system of algebra that enables the mind to function beyond the range of thought."
― Dion Fortune, Sane Occultism
"No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent."
― J.S. Bell
"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."
― Stephen W. Hawking
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
― Democritus of Abdera
"Occult science has two enemies to contend with ― the skeptical materialist who denies everything, and the credulous occultaster who believes everything."
― Dion Fortune, Sane Occultism
"Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth. But one creature said at last, "I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom." The other creatures laughed and said, "Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom!" But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks. Yet, in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more. And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, "See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!" And the one carried in the current said, "I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure." But they cried the more, "Saviour!" all the while clinging to the rocks, making legends of a Saviour."
― Illusions Richard Bach
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
― Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)
"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist."
― Unknown
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Out of the raw material of the natural man, the divine man is unfolded"
― The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order, P. F. Case
"Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944))
"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."
― Georg C. Lichtenberg
"Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself."
― Plato
"Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!"
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Reality is not only stranger than we suppose but stranger than we can suppose."
― J. B. S. Haldane
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
― Albert Einstein, in The New Convergence
"Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Be open to the outcome."
― Angeles Arrien, The Four-Fold Way
"So let's review: Heinlein is involved in a secret Thelemic society composed of artists, writers, scientists, and other advanced and odd minded folk. Their magick works, their lives are transformed and it is time to transmit their message to a vast number of people who desperately need to evolve. There is no interest in repeating the 'burning times' of their spiritual forebears, who rose up, were murdered, and rose again like some ontological Phoenix. And, to make matter worse, the gods had somehow selected Crowley as the channel for their newest batch of goodies only to see Crowley (and his followers) spectacularly martyred in one of the most vicious press assassinations of our century. There was only one thing to do. We had done it many times before: Go into hiding and open up under a new name. And that is exactly what Heinlein did. He designed Stranger to be a magickal seed containing the spiritual and intellectual DNA of Thelema, which he placed into the fertile loam of his times, sowing a crop which includes the neo-pagan, ecosophical, sexual and consciousness movements ― not to mention much of the current trend in Thelema. For any who cared to track his ideas, Heinlein encoded many additional lessons. And he included enough clues so that, some day, as a healthy, vibrant race of magickal women and men prepared to take to the stars, they'd come to know that the man who continued the sacred lineage of Valentinus, the Gnostics and the Templars, and who nursed it through the 20th century, the "man who sold the stars" was none other than, the 'father of us all', Robert Anson Heinlein."
― the concluding paragraph of the essay by Adam Walks Between Worlds (Adam Rostoker 1959-1997): Whence Came the Stranger: Tracking the Metapattern of Stranger in a Strange Land originally published in Green Egg Magazine, the journal of the Church of All Worlds
"So rather than searching for the remnants of a vanquished enlightenment, perhaps we would be better served by using our energy to integrate the unfortunately lost imaginal perspective of the past with the hard-won informational perspective of today."
― Cynthia Giles, The Tarot: Methods, Mastery, and More
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
― Lewis Carroll
"Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth . . . home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity."
― Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and founder, Institute of Noetic Sciences
"Synchronicities are natural phenomena. There is no evidence that they are devised by fate in order to teach mankind moral lessons. Like the fruits and flowers, they are products of nature. They grow spontaneously in our garden, awaiting discovery. They present themselves for our nourishment and delight."
― Sallie Nichols, Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey
"That though omnipotence may seem to be endangered by the threshold passages and life awakenings, protective power is always and ever present within the sanctuary of the heart and even immanent within, or just behind, the unfamiliar features of the world."
― Joseph Campbell
"That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself."
― Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
"That's the Fool of God, who isn't concerned with knowledge. If he wants it, it's there, like the folding donkey of one of the Chinese sages. Anytime he needed it, he just took it out and unfolded it and rode it, which is an absolutely delightful idea"
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"The amount of teaching which is given must always be determined by the capacity of the recipient, and the occult fraternities can never give out to the world more than the world can take; and as the pace of the convoy is always that of the slowest ship, it follows that the amount of knowledge released from the Mysteries must be determined by the capacity of the least evolved among its possible hearers."
― Dion Fortune, Sane Occultism
"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance ― (and) the idea that anything is possible."
― Ray Bradbury
"The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present."
― Chang-Tzu
"The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."
― Richard Bach
"The Cabala doesn't believe in sin at all. There is such a thing as 'missing the mark', but we always get another chance. The notion of sin is fabricated by the priesthood. It's their way of keeping the sheep in the fold."
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"The character of the adept may be summed up in one brief phrase ― he is a soldier-scholar dedicated to the service of God."
― Dion Fortune, Sane Occultism
"The compromise is only to society. The cosmos doesn't run on the basis of compromise. It just runs, period."
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
― Archibald MacLeish
"The faithful hermetists await the light, ripe for chelaship, ringroundabout him."
― Joyce, Ulysses
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge."
― Albert Einstein
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
― William James
"The hero . . . discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed. One by one the resistances are broken. He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life, and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable. Then he finds he and his opposite are not of differing species, but one flesh."
― Joseph Campbell
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science."
― Albert Einstein
"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."
― Aart Van Der Leeuw
"The need of certainty is very strong in human nature; it is only a highly trained mind that is able to suspend judgment on insufficient evidence; but it is better to endure the torture of uncertainty than to believe a lie..."
― Dion Fortune, Sane Occultism
"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth."
― Niels Bohr
"The passage of the mythological hero may be over-ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward ― into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world. This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a knowledge of its own unconquered power."
― Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces
"The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!"
― Lord Byron
"The reactive person is a busy person, concerned with his daily Armageddon."
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"The sage helps the ten thousand things find their own nature."
― Tao Te Ching
"The sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
― Albert Einstein
"The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one."
― The Upanishads
"The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities."
― Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
― Oscar Wilde
"The true occult secrets have never been betrayed in their entirety. In fact, it is only the lesser secrets that are capable of betrayal; the higher secrets of the mystical consciousness are incapable of betrayal because they are not communicated, but realized."
― Dion Fortune, Sane Occultism
"The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind."
― Emily Dickinson
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
― Winston Churchill
"The universe on a very basic level could be a vast web of particles which remain in contact with one another over distance, and in no time."
― R. Nadeau and M. Kafatos
"The visible world is the invisible organization of energy."
― Physicist Heinz Pagels
"The warrior steps forth to accept the unknown and challenge disbelief, for if it lies in mind it Is, by God!"
― Ramtha
"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."
― Stephen W. Hawking
"There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature."
― Stephen W. Hawking
"There are very few people to-day who have heard of Plato and Aristotle. Not one in a thousand, perhaps ten thousand, of those few have ever read either of them, even in translations. But there are also very few people whose thinking, such as it is, is not conditioned by the ideas of these two men."
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth
"There is no reality in the absence of observation."
― The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
"There is only one test, to walk straight up to it and see whether the stones of the Path are beneath one's feet or if one has simply torn one's way into the sordid back promises of a theatre."
― Dion Fortune, Sane Occultism
"There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come."
― Victor Hugo
"They conceal themselves in order to teach without interference. One may know them by this: that they are faithful in all things to the ideal of beauty. This man's dress was beautiful, his carriage was beautiful, his voice was beautiful, his choice of words and images was beautiful, his outlook on life was a perpetual recognition of beauty, and the lessons he taught me ― lessons I shall never forget ― were lessons of beauty too"
― The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order, P. F. Case
"This is not necessarily the simple investigation of ghosts and spirits. It is an adventure in time travel to study the "People of the Past"."
― Stacey Allen McGee, Tour Director, Appalachian GhostWalks
"Time is not a line, but a series of now points."
― Taisen Deshimaru
"To be able to change, we must remember the original decisions that created our belief structure"
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
― Stephen W. Hawking
"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
― Copernicus
"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right."
― Confucius
"To see things in the seed, that is genius."
― Lao-tzu
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity...and I'm not sure about the universe."
― Albert Einstein
"We don't dissolve and just disappear. Rather, old patterns and thought-forms go away from us as new perceptions and understandings come to us. This is how we become a new creature through the alchemical operation. Become more ourselves ― that's what the new creature is all about."
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"We feel and know that we are eternal."
― Edmund Spenser
"We have actually touched the Borderland where Matter and Force seem to merge into one another, the shadowy realm between the Known and Unknown ... I venture to think that the greatest scientific problems of the future will find their solution in this Borderland, and even beyond; here, it seems to me, lie Ultimate Realities, subtle, far-reaching, wonderful."
― Sir William Crookes, 1879
"We have to embrace the Saturn principle because the cutting tool is essential to creation. Decide what you want to express and then be quite severe with what disturbs your vision. You can't sculpt a horse, a cow, and a rabbit all at the same time."
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"We make a fundamental error when we try to obtain happiness by the possession of things. Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven which is within us, and all these things that make for happiness shall be added unto us through a thousand unexpected channels till they are more than we can ask or think."
― Dion Fortune, Sane Occultism
"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
― T. S. Eliot
"We use the mouse approach, which is to just nibble a little bit at a time."
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes."
― Joseph Cambell Sukhavati(2007)
"What if you slept, and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ay, what then?"
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What others term duty, he names his good pleasure; he does good because he wishes to, and never wills anything else..."
― Eliphas Levi, The Mysteries of Magic
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)
"When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth."
― Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always."
― Mahatma Gandhi
"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
― Carl Gustav Jung
"Whoever talks about Planck's constant and does not feel at least a little giddy obviously doesn't appreciate what he is talking about."
― Niels Bohr (quoted by Teller: see French & Kennedy 1985, p.182)
"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking."
― John Maynard Keynes
"You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you ― the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
"You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)
"You can do an immense amount of of psychological and even physical damage to yourself unwittingly by misunderstanding the desire-nature as something you have to root out or plow out or transmute. The Tarot and the Cabala are going to leave your guts in. All your brains and organs will be there at the end of the trail."
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality."
― Ramtha
"You were told that there were spooks and goblins that come out of the dark. They are associated with things like the Tarot, and astrology, and witches, which are said to be slimy and creepy. On the other side it's Lord Jesus and all the saints and prophets. They are all shining brightly and they have on white suits and sing like crazy."
― Jason Lotterhand, Thursday Night Tarot
"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is ― impossible."
― Richard Bach (born 1936)
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
― Niels Bohr