Gnostics.... We maintain that the world is an illusion. The unconscious self is
consubstantial with perfection, but because of a tragic fall it is
thrown into a foreign domain that is completely alien to its true being.
It’s always a fall, a tragic fall, and here we are. That’s it, in a
nutshell.
Stuff, Joy Williams (The New Yorker, July 25, 2016)
Showing posts with label reality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reality. Show all posts
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Monday, May 23, 2016
As we move up our space/time-line, what will be has been, what has been remains, now is just now.
An errant thought.
An errant thought.
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awareness,
being,
contemplation,
existence,
life,
reality,
reflection,
time
Monday, March 10, 2014
It doesn't have to be understood to be real.
Peter Lanza
Peter Lanza
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belief,
blues,
contemplation,
existence,
insight,
life,
misfortune,
reality
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Consciousness was indeed real. It had observable energy. That energy translated into movement, into work. That energy ordered information, the stuff of the world, the matter, and recycled that order back into itself, lifting itself to ever higher ground.
Kathleen Ann Goonan, Light Music
Kathleen Ann Goonan, Light Music
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consciousness,
cosmology,
existence,
humans,
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intellect,
phenomenon,
quantum physics,
reality,
singularity,
soul,
thinking,
thought,
universe
Friday, February 21, 2014
Consciousness was firmly embedded in the fabric of space and time, a material part of its vibrational energy. Consciousness, or mind, was not split off from matter, hovering outside it.... Instead, consciousness was within matter, of matter. It was matter looking at itself and being astonished. It was the point seeing the wave, or the wave seeing the point. Consciousness was quantum electrodynamism. Time turned back upon itself. Time splintering. Time strutting loose among the energy levels, only slightly stilled, slightly caught, in that glance called consciousness, the observer, the energy that made it into this and not-this, live cat and dead cat.
Kathleen Ann Goonan, Light Music
Kathleen Ann Goonan, Light Music
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awareness,
consciousness,
electrodynamics,
light,
mind,
QED,
quantum physics,
reality,
relativity,
Schrodinger,
sci-fi,
time
Saturday, July 27, 2013
The whole meaning of the universe, its beauty, is contained in the consciousness of intelligent life. We are the consciousness of the universe, and our job is to spread that around, to go look at things, to live everywhere we can.
Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
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change,
civilization,
consciousness,
cosmology,
doing,
existence,
freedom,
history,
intelligence,
life,
man,
Mars,
NASA,
possibility,
purpose,
reality,
space travel,
understanding,
universe
Sunday, July 21, 2013
To Evening
You set me and my thoughts a-wandering
along the path to the eternal void; and then
this wretched time flees, and with it
the throng of woes afflicting it and me;
and while I behold your peacefulness, that warlike
spirit that rages within me sleeps.
From "Alla sera" by Ugo Foscolo, translated by Allen Shearer, seen on a Metro bus
along the path to the eternal void; and then
this wretched time flees, and with it
the throng of woes afflicting it and me;
and while I behold your peacefulness, that warlike
spirit that rages within me sleeps.
From "Alla sera" by Ugo Foscolo, translated by Allen Shearer, seen on a Metro bus
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being,
consciousness,
contemplation,
evening,
existence,
life,
melancholy,
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reality,
thinking,
time,
understanding,
wisdom
Saturday, July 06, 2013
"Creation" in [the] Hindu view of things is designated by the word srishthi, literally the "pouring forth" of the universe from the source. As a complex plant or tree grows, bursting forth and developing from the simple unitary seed, or as a complex creature emerges and grows from an embryo, so is this whole and diverse universe poured forth from the ... very body of the divine. There is no God who stands apart from it and creates it.... everything is a manifestation that has poured forth from the living body of the Whole, what some would call God.... Within this systemic whole, everything is alive and interrelated.
Diana L. Eck, India: A Sacred Geography
Diana L. Eck, India: A Sacred Geography
Friday, April 13, 2012
Time has
branded them and fettered they are lodged in the room of the infinite
possibilities they have ousted. But can those have been possible seeing
that they never were? Or was that only possible which came to pass?
James Joyce, Ulysses
James Joyce, Ulysses
Thursday, July 07, 2011
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