The Object of Desire and the Totality of the Real
The sacred dimension is not something that you can know through words and ideas any more than you can learn what an apple pie tastes like by eating the recipe.
Adyashanti • The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
The visible is only a placeholder for real desire.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Philosophers have spent centuries arguing about the relative weight between “subject” (I) and “object” (the world), but Baudrillard saw the debate as having long since become insignificant – the object had won hands down. A person today is not a project in selfhood, as many traditions of philosophy and theology have told us, but more like a machine
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Nothing in this world is, because everything is always in a state of becoming something else.
Richard Tarnas • Passion of the Western Mind
Our deepest spiritual and psychological aspirations are fundamentally incoherent with the very nature of the cosmos as revealed by the modern mind.