We have lost sight of the original harmony. If you could hear the sound that is produced by the sunflower as it keeps on turning its head toward the sun, the friction between the flower and the air, and if you could hear the sound produced by the galaxies, you would hear and realize that the system is based upon […]
Holiness is what is loved by all the gods. It is loved because it is holy, and not holy because it is loved. Plato (circa 427 – 347 B.C.E.)
Light is the shadow of God. Plato (circa 427 – 347 B.C.E.)
Because every thought enters the heart in the form of a mental image of some sensible object, the blessed light of the Divinity will illumine the heart only when it is completely empty of everything, and so free from all form. Indeed, this light reveals itself to the pure intellect in the measure to which the intellect is purged of […]
For God grants wisdom from His mouth together with perception and practical wisdom, and stores up help for the righteous. Odes of Solomon (circa 1st-century A.D.)
The divine and conceptual scriptures are compared with dew, with water, with milk, with wine, and with honey, for they have the power like water to produce life, like milk to give growth, like vine to revive, like honey both to purify and preserve. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (circa 500 A.D.)
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future. And time future contained in time past. T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965)
At the still point of the turning world, neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be […]
I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details. Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
God related to Catherine of Siena: “Do you know, daughter, who you are and who I am? If you know these two things you will have beatitude within your grasp. You are she who is not, and I am He who is.” Raymond of Capua (1330 – 1399)
