We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don’t need to work on themselves.
You put two egos together and you’ve either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.
Culture is your operating system.
I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there.
No one knows enough to worry.
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world...
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us.
The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.