The energy everything is made of is conscious. It’s alive.

Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

But you don’t really mean to say that you couldn’t love me if my name wasn’t Ernest?GWENDOLEN: But your name is Ernest.JACK: Yes, I know it is. But supposing it was something else? Do you...

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the...

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self- reliant and totally self- sufficient. It is perfect.

Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum – its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine...

Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.

The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes...

belief is the death of intelligence.

Quand celui à qui l’on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c’est de la métaphysiqueWhen he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does...

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is

Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it.

The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.

I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is...

The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement.

For all the compasses in the world, there’s only one direction, and time is its only measure.

The past is always written for the future.

Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.

All’s a Oneness. There’s nothing else.

Choice, is what presents us with a multitude of paths, because choice creates a flow of electrons through the brain in a manner that inexorably leads to quantum superposition, and the many-worlds that are the...

We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it’s form. If it can not be formed then it can not exist. We may not exist.

Q. Surely it is easier to be objective about other people than about oneself?A. No, it is more difficult. If you become objective to yourself you can see other people objectively, but not before, because before that...

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of...

The most flattering spin I can put on this phase of paradoxes and metaphysical tangles is that I was smart enough, at age fourteen, to destroy any fledgling hypothesis I came up with. A tentative...

You don’t need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit like a glove for one that hung on us like ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However,...

The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to that human lifespan. Relatively speaking, short and long lifespans are the same. Both...

The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid.

…an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

There is so much more than we can see, there is so much more that we can be.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

Quantum jumping is the process by which a person envisions some desired result or state of being that is different from the existing situation—and by clearly observing that possibility and supplying sufficient energy, makes a...

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

Good metaphysics has its roots in good physics.

The mind is matter in and of itself, but I don’t mind, and it doesn’t matter.

Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute.

At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?

Life is not a fairground, but a school. — Franz Bardon

(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it were one of reason’s most important occupations? Still more, how little...

There is the potential for a particle of matter to be located where we expect it to be or to be located anywhere in the physical world. So it is with our lives – our...

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape,...

We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.

In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mélange of practical materialism, political pragmatism, moral and cultural relativism, and philosophical skepticism.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.– from The Sexual Side of Spirituality

So live. I’ll be the nun for you. I am now.

The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning “one”) and versus (meaning “turned into”). It literally means “one turned into.