#metaphysics

"Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him"

"What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?"

"A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew."

"Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you."

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

"if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like"

"After your death, you will be what you were before your birth."

"The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation."

"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve."

"The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid."

"Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another."

"belief is the death of intelligence."

"The map is not the territory."

"Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?"

"We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself."

"...reality is always plural and mutable."

"The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward."

"In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works."

"...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable."