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"Just being with knowing is doing."
- Everyone.
" My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit which reveals itself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
- Albert Einstein
"The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained."
- Bhikkhu Bodhi
"Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and importance of the question."
- Tennessee Williams
"In conformity with this state of mind the idea that some Soul of souls should be developing at the summit of the world is not as strange as might be thought from the present-day views of human reason. After all, is there any other way in which our thought can generalise the Principle of Emergence."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you've got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationships, and to discover (rather than to invent) the answer to the problem within the problem itself."
- Abraham Maslow
"We say more than we know that we say. We know more than we can say that we know."
- Michael Polanyi
"The future is open. It is not predetermined and thus cannot be predicted except by accident. The possibilities that lie in the future are infinite. When I say 'our duty is to remain optimists', this includes not only the openness of the future but also that which all of us contribute to it by everything we do: we are all responsible for what the future holds in store. "
"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite." -
- Karl Popper
"We started out saying the trouble is that the world is in chaos, but I think we end up by saying that thought is in chaos. That's each one of us. And that is the cause of the world's being in chaos - then the chaos comes back and adds to the chaos of thought."
- David Bohm
"We cannot say what consciousness is, but we can say whether there is more or less of it, and also whether it is of coarse or refined texture. It is an emergent quality which evolves towards higher levels of complexity, and is inseparably married to the activities of the brain."
-Arthur Koestler
"Emergence has in an orderly way moved from protons to philosophers." - Harold Morowitz
"The deep patterns of higher waves of consciousness are, even now being formed. Nothing is pre-given. Everything is in a state of emergence. It 'tetra-evolves' from the deep patterns of the past and present, moment by moment."
- Richard Slaughter
"It is not how good or bad you do something, but is instead the consciousness used to choose it, that really counts" - Stephen Forsyth
"We have the gift of free will. The free will to go from one extreme to another; to isolate ourselves from others and follow the course of our own lives without much concern for anyone else, or to live a life of service to others without due regard for ourselves. Individual consciousness can bring peace of mind, but there may be a danger of isolation or an ego trip into self-importance. This can happen when individual consciousness does not follow its natural course into a consciousness of our interdependence."
- Sue Vaughan
"Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not."
- Arnold Beisser
"Systems almost always have the peculiarity that the characteristics of the whole cannot (even in theory) be deduced from the most complete knowledge of the components, taken separately or in other partial combinations. This appearance of new characteristics in wholes has been designated as emergence."
-Ernst Mayr
"Consciousness is the space in which phenomena arises." - Ken Wilber
"We solve the problems of existence and entreat emergence. When we have solved all the problems of existence by emergence there remains only the problem of existence. That problem is solved by the simple experience of the emergence of all."
- Stephen Forsyth
"We do not find answers by seeking one-sided truths which then have to be defended, but by engaging in the creative tension of dialogue"
-John Rowan
"We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are."
-- Talmud
"To those who can use their eyes nothing, not even the summit of our being, can escape this flux any longer, because it is only definable in accretions of consciousness. The very act by which the fine edge of our minds penetrates the absolute is a phenomenon, as it were of emergence."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way." - Aldous Huxley
"Consciousness is the thing that happens between naps." - Unknown Sage
"The spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability is one of the most important concepts of the new understanding of life. In biological systems this is technically known as self-organisation and is often referred to simply as 'emergence'. "
- Fritjof Capra
"I think therefore I have"
- Snoopy on consciousness
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