I want to explain the new alchemy [in the “From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time”], which has to do with understanding what I call the subjective and objective qualities of existence.
FRED ALAN WOLFOh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.
More Fred Alan Wolf Quotes
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What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: “as above, so below, as within, so without.”
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Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can’t have a Universe without mind entering into it, and that the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.
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What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal
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Asking yourself deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life more joyful. The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.
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In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new.
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Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.
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Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. What’s real has love at its heart; the universe is constructed from love, and that love is very much tied to our power of attention and imagination.
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Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.
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The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.
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We need all three senses of time – a sense of the future, a sense of the present, and a sense of the past – at all times to understand or experience what’s happening right now. It’s constantly unfolding that way.
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I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.
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The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
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The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That’s really what new alchemy’s all about.
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When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.
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That’s sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.
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