Fritjof Capra Quote – “The world is not a collection of separate objects…”

The world is not a collection of separate objects but rather appears as a web of relations between the various parts of a unified whole. Fritjof Capra (1939)

Helder Camara (1909 – 1999), Living Book, The Sacred

Helder Camara Quote – “Love that springs from aught but you…”

Love that springs from aught but you, love that lives in aught but you, love that returns not to you, is not love. Helder Camara (1909 – 1999)

Edward Caird (1835 – 1908), Living Book, The Sacred

Edward Caird Quote – “It is not necessary to think of revelation as a source of knowledge…”

It is not necessary to think of revelation as a source of knowledge which is either contrary to reason or above reason… On the contrary it would not be difficult to show that the true idea of revelation, that which is most honoring to God, is at the same time that which is most ennobling to man — the idea, […]

Edward Caird (1835 – 1908), Living Book, The Sacred

Edward Caird Quote – “For whilst in one sense we give up self to live the universal and absolute life of reason…”

For whilst in one sense we give up self to live the universal and absolute life of reason, yet that to which we thus surrender ourselves is in reality our truer self. The life of absolute truth or reason is not a life that is foreign to us. If it is above us, it is also within us. In yielding […]

Hakim Sanai (circa 1080 – 1141), Living Book, The Sacred

Hakim Sanai Quote – “It is useless quibbling over a mere word…”

It is useless quibbling over a mere word, even if that word is God. To accept or reject it, when we have no knowledge of what it may represent, is equally inappropriate. God is a mystery, and the mystery remains, whatever name we give to it. Hakim Sanai (circa 1080 – 1141), from The Walled Garden of Truth

Alan Watts (1915 – 1973), Living Book, The Sacred

Alan Watts Quote – “The bamboo shadows Sweep the steps But raise no dust.”

The bamboo shadows Sweep the steps But raise no dust. Alan Watts (1915 – 1973)

Living Book, The Sacred, William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)

William Wordsworth Quote – “Listen! The Mighty Being is awake…”

Listen! The Mighty Being is awake, and doth with His eternal motion make, a sound like thunder — everlastingly. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)

Living Book, The Sacred, Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)

Walt Whitman Quote – “There is apart from mere intellect, in the make-up of every superior human identity…”

There is apart from mere intellect, in the make-up of every superior human identity, a wondrous something that realizes without argument, frequently without what is called education (though I think it the goal and apex of all education deserving the name), an intuition of the absolute balance, in time and space, of the whole of this multifariousness, this revel of […]