“I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.” ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad.” ― Michael Moore, Here Comes Trouble
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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Arthur Eddington BONUS 1 An astronomer interested in Einstein's theory because of its wide-ranging implications for astrophysics and cosmology, Eddington took on the task of proving it. By harnessing a total solar eclipse, he argued that the deflection, or bending, of light by the Sun's gravity could be measured. 2 Eddington discovered in 1926 that the inward gravitational pressure of a star must maintain the outward radiation and gas pressure to remain in equilibrium. He also demonstrated that there was an upper limit on the mass of a star. 3 Einstein and Eddington meetings made a partnership that allowed relativity to leap the trenches and make Einstein one of the most famous people on the globe. Einstein and Eddington did not meet during the war, or even send direct messages. Einstein and Eddington - good movie 2018 Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body." - John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
"It is not our own citizens only who are to receive the bounty of our government. More than eight millions of the stock of this bank are held by foreigners... is there no danger to our liberty and independence in a bank that in its nature has so little to bind it to our country? ... Controlling our currency, receiving our public moneys, and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence... would be more formidable and dangerous than a military power of the enemy." - President Andrew Jackson
"The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish."--Terrence Mckenna Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
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“When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. ” ― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
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"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." - Benjamin Franklin
"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale."---Richard Dawkins Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression... There is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we must be most aware of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." - William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice from 1939-1975
“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.” ― Isaac Newton
“The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries.” ― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!