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.
FRED ALAN WOLFI 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.
More Fred Alan Wolf Quotes
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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.
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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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Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.
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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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The place where knowledge occurs is the present. That which recognizes the present is mind.
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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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All we know is that you are, if you will, the acme of perfection.
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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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People who are creative often will spend hours doing something and come out of their period of creation and not even notice that hours have passed. In that sense, they’re able to time travel.
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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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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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Dreams – Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.
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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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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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To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn’t anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.
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