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• The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

  Rumi

  Stars, Reflection, Moon

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• In space-time everything which for each of us constitutes the past, the present and the future is given en bloc...Each observer, as his time passes, discovers, so to speak, new slices of space-time which appear to him as successive aspects of the material world, though in reality the ensemble of events constituting space-time exist prior to his knowledge of them.

  Louis de Broglie

  Past, Reality, Space

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• Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to it. In order to bring crisis into your work you have to bring it to a state of expectancy. In other words you have to leave your work in the state of mind of being a question.

  Milton Resnick

  Order, Mind, Culture

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• ...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.

  Zhuangzi

  Life And Death, Body, Share

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• It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Vocabulary, Special, Fundamentals

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• According to quantum field theory, fields alone are real. They are the substance of the universe and not 'matter'. Matter is simply the momentary manifestation of interacting fields which, intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only real things in the universe.

  Gary Zukav

  Real, Substance, Matter

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• Today people live to work rather than work for a living. They have forgotten their true goal in life. Subsequently they have forgotten their dharma. There is no communication between hearts, there is no sharing. Having lost contact with other's hearts, we become totally isolated. But in truth we are not isolated islands, we are links that form one chain.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Communication, Heart, Islands

  "Patience Leads to Love". Conversation with Riitta Uosukainen, www.amritapuri.org. October 06, 2000.

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• I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.

  Amit Goswami

  Looks, Consciousness, Description

  Amit Goswami (1995). “The Self-Aware Universe”, p.215, Penguin

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• Objects obey quantum laws- they spread in possibility following the equation discovered by Erwin Schodinger- but the equation is not codified within the objects. Likewise, appropriate non-linear equations govern the dynamical response of bodies that have gone through the conditioning of quantum memory, although this memory is not recorded in them. Whereas classical memory is recorded in objects like a tape, quantum memory is truly the analog of what the ancients call Akashic memory, memory written in Akasha, Emptiness- nowhere.

  Amit Goswami

  Memories, Law, Tape

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• What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Names, Together, Goes On

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

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• Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the objective idealists would say. The Quality which creates the world emerges as a relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The measure of all things.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Men, Quality, World

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Ch. 29, 1974.

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• The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

  Carl Jung

  Ideas, Migration, Facts

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.

  Dora Russell

  Children, War, Believe

  "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, ch. v, p. 205, 1927.

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• Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

  Edith Stein

  Abstract, Concrete, Whole

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.11, ICS Publications

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• I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Night, Agony, Soul

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.291, Library of Alexandria

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• The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

  Jack McDevitt

  Essentials, Boards, Culture

  Jack McDevitt (1995). “The Engines of God”, p.99, Penguin

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• The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sound, Pumps, Spheres

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2031, Delphi Classics

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• There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for some definite, fore-ordered end. The flowers blossom in obedience to the same law that marks the course of constellations, and the song of a bird is the echo of a universal symphony. Nature is one, and to me the greatest delight of observation and study is to discover new unities in this all-embracing and eternal harmony.

  John Muir

  Song, Flower, Echoes

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• The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.

  Salvador Allende

  Government, Self, Transition

  Editorial by the North American Congress on Latin America, July 2003.

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• The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine.

  Francisco Varela

  Organization, Machines, May

  "Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 137, 1980.

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• There are spiritual patterns at work in the universe and these announce themselves with impressive regularity wherever human minds and hearts attempt to attune themselves to the cosmos in all its radiant dimensions.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Heart, Mind

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• Pray May all reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of Love and vibrations of unity and harmony.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Sweet, May

  Twitter post from May 07, 2014

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• To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Spiritual, Goal

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• In a world like this, media can help us to feel closer to one another, creating a sense of unity of the human family which can in turn inspire solidarity and serious efforts to ensure a more dignified life for all.

  Pope Francis

  Media, Creating, Effort

  Message of Pope Francis for the 48th World Communications Day, w2.vatican.va. June 1, 2014.

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• Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.

  Irving Howe

  Writing, Doe, Fiction

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