Psychologists are not known for raising or producing great children, but are tasked with observing and commenting on how to do so -- they do NOT rely on first hand experience, but rather on 'objective science' -- this is also a 20th century phenomenon, that is slowly giving way to the ideas that there is no such thing as a disconnected point of view, or an unbiased point of view -- we all affect what we see and observe, and are affected by the same (Heisenberg)

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Winston Churchill

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
- Freeman Dyson

Whoever talks about Planck's constant and does not feel at least a little giddy obviously doesn't appreciate what he is talking about.
- Niels Bohr (quoted by Teller: see French & Kennedy 1985, p.182)

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity...and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes

The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one.
- The Upanishads

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.
- Jelauddin Rumi

No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.
- J.S. Bell

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
- Giordano Bruno

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ‘I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.’ If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane.
- Ramtha

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
- Confucius

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality.
- Ramtha


All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
- Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning Father of Quantum Theory

If those who lead you say to you, "See, the Kingdom is in the sky," then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, "It is in the sea," then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.
- (All the sayings of Jesus gathered from ancient sources and compiled into a single volume for the first time. Compiled by Ricky Alan Mayotte) From The Complete Jesus. (Pg 71) Jesus

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always.
- Mahatma Gandhi

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei

There is no reality in the absence of observation.
- The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing -a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit.
- Ken Wilber

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.
- Albert Einstein

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
- Emily Dickinson

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
- Stephen W. Hawking

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein

All speech, action, and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
- Carl Jung

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
- Stephen W. Hawking

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
- Democritus of Abdera

In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
- Marianne Williamson

I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.
- Albert Einstein

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot

Time is not a line, but a series of now points.
- Taisen Deshimaru

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"The Buddha said that if in a certain moment or place you adopt something as the absolute truth, and you attach to that, then you will no longer have any chance to reach the truth.  Even when the truth comes and personally knocks on your door, and asks yuou to open the door, you wojn't recognize it.  So you must not be too attached to dogmas -- to what you believe, and to what you perceive.
Great suffering is caused by attachment to views of dogmatism and fundamentalism, by the consequences of that attitude.  And that is why, among the fourteen mindfulness trainings of the Order of Interbeing, the training on freedom from views is in the first position.
We have to free ourselves from these views -- even the views of non-self, the view of impermancenc, of inter-being -- we have to let go of all of these.  These are instruments to work with, but they are not to be venerated in themselves. It's like using a raft to cross the river.  After you cross the river, you abandon the raft.  You don't carry the raft on your head and wald around like that.  That is very popular, carrying a rqaft around on your head.  People are doing that all the time!'  Thich Nhat Hanh