Aleph by Paolo Coelho

Thou knowest all – I cannot see. I trust I shall not live in vain, I know that we shall meet again In some divine eternity. – Oscar Wilde, “The True Knowledge” I’ve been trying all my life to find out what my limits are and have never reached them yet. But then my universe doesn’t [...]

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. – Thornton Wilder

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. – John Tyndall

Vedanta Philosophy by Swami Vivekananda

The word which is “creation” in English language is in Sanskrit exactly “projection.” Western Creation: Something that coming out of nothing. Vedanta Creation: Projection of that which already existed. We are all one, and the cause of evil is the perception of duality. As soon as I begin to feel that I am separate from [...]

Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming by Catherine Shainberg

I sleep but my heart is awake. – Song of Songs 5:2 Dreaming emanates from our right brain which, along with the rest of our brain, never stops emitting nerve impulses. This is a natural result of being alive. Like breathing, it goes on day and night. The left brain is abstract and talks of [...]

You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it. Which means, among other things, that we behave in response to our judgements rather than to [...]

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts

This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat contradiction to everything know about man (and all other living organisms) in the sciences. We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual [...]

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

[Kahlil Gibran’s] His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own. – Claude Bragdon Love And ever has it been that love knows not its own [...]

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

[The Nine Insights] All that any of us have to do is suspend our doubts and distractions just long enough… Even though we occasionally have the clear insight that something more is going on in life, our habitual way of thinking is to consider such ideas unknowable and then to shrug off the awareness altogether. [...]

What is here is everywhere, what is not here is nowhere.