Epigrams and Quotations

"All the hopes, desires, loves, and affections that people have for different
things - fathers, mothers, friends, heavens, the earth, palaces, sciences,
works, food, drink - the saint knows that these are desires for God and all
those things are veils. When men leave this world and see the King without
these veils, then they will know that all were veils and coverings, that the
object of their desire was in reality that One Thing." -Rumi

"Civilization is a most expensive process
and its aquisitions have been paid for by enormous
losses, the extent of which we have largely
forgotten or have never appreciated." - C. G. Jung

"In our time of general disorientation, it is necessary to know about
the true state of human affairs, which depends so much on the mental
and moral qualities of the individual and on the human psyche in
general. But if we are to see things in the right perspective, we need
to understand the past of man as well as his present. That is why an
understanding of myths and symbols is of essential importance." - C. G. Jung

"An infinite amount of time does not gurantee an infinite number of arrangements."

"Reality, in the modern conception, appears as a tremendous hierarchical
order of organized entities, leading, in a super position of many levels,
from physical and chemical to biological and sociological systems. Such
hierarchical structures and combination into systems of ever higher order,
is characteristic of reality as a whole and of fundamental importance
especially in biology, psychology and sociology." - L. von Bertalanaffy

"That the system [i.e. reality] is sliding does not mean that meaning
can't be established, that truth doesn't exist, or that contexts won't hold still
long enough to make a simple point. Many postmodern poststructuralists
have not simply discovered holonic space, they have become thoroughly
lost in it. George Bataille, for example, took a good, long, hard look at
holonic space and went properly insane, though which is cause, and which
effect, is hard to say." - K. Wilber

"If it were permissible to personify the unconcious, we might call it a
collective human being combining the characteristics of both sexes,
transcending youth and age, birth and death, and, from having at his
command a human experience of one or two million years, almost immortal.
If such a being existed, he would be exalted above all temporal change; the
present would mean niether more nor less to him than any year in the
one-hundreth century before Christ; he would be a dreamer of age-old
dreams, and owing to his immeasurable experience, he would be an
incomparable prognosticator. He would have lived countless times over the
life of the individual, of the family, tribe, and people, and he would possess
the living sense of the rythem of growth, flowering and decay." - C. G. Jung

"These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to
better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no
time for them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its
existence. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present,
but with reverted eye laments the past, or heedless of the riches that surround
him, stands on tip toe to forsee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until
he too lives with nature in the present, above time." - R. W. Emerson

"When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances
that constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that a man has to pay
dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with yes and no." - F. Neitzsche

"Time moves on with an unfaltering tread, and never strikes twice an identical hour."
-J.Delboeuf

"If man is sick, is unable, is mean-spirited and odious, it is because
there is so much of his nature which is unlawfully withholded from him." - R. W. Emerson