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When we are no longer identified with the idea of ourselves, the entire relationship between subject and object, knower and known, undergoes a sudden and revolutionary change. It becomes a real relationship, a mutuality in which the subject creates the object just as much as the object creates the subject. The knower no longer feels himself to be
... See moreAlan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
Indeed, it explains how deeply ingrained belief systems create the world we live in.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
Helgoland (Italian Edition)
we constantly err by assuming our studies provide an objective assessment of the way those other scales really are in themselves, independent of the very partial perspective that we curious primates have on those dimensions.
David Abram • Becoming Animal
Many psychological and spiritual approaches rely on an engineering metaphor and hope to make your mind more predictable and controllable. Koans go the other way. They encourage you to make an ally of the unpredictability of the mind and to approach your life more as a work of art. The surprise they offer is the one that art offers: inside
... See moreJohn Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
What do you mean when you write that everyone is an artist?
O’Donohue:
I mean that everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. So it’s never as given as it actually looks; you’re always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist.
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Above all, it is unmasking prejudices, and building and developing novel conceptual tools with which to think more effectively about the world.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
For a form to remain alive, we need always to return to the source, to the truth. Below the Absolute, at all levels, there is remembering and a thirst to turn toward the greater, toward what is. But, as we descend the ladder of involution, forgetting appears and becomes deeper and deeper.
Madame de Salzmann • The Reality of Being
By working in series, Monet declared that his subject was not a view but the act of seeing that view – a process of mind, unfolding subjectively, never fixed, always becoming.