

“The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flashes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The dive vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.”
― The Act of Creation (Arkana) Paperback 鈥 June 5, 1990
― The Act of Creation (Arkana) Paperback 鈥 June 5, 1990
“[Idries Shah advised that if] the question is asked repeatedly and clearly: will it be healed or won鈥檛 it be? Can it be healed, or can鈥檛 it be? 鈥 a vibration is set up which is the right code for the computer. Thus the computer will become aware that the skin is damaged and will intervene to repair 鈥 since this is its function. Provided always that communication with it is coded in the correct way. (The Steganographer 6)”
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“Although human mobility has increased, human assumptions have not kept pace. Human knowledge may have increased but human assumptions have remained fairly constant.”
― The Commanding Self
― The Commanding Self
“There is a distinction between people who keep dissonant thoughts and ideas apart and those that allow them to influence each other. Similar distinctions might be convergent thinkers (linear, logical and systematic) versus divergent thinkers (flexible, creative, and explorative).”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called 鈥淕od鈥
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called 鈥淕od鈥
“It is there to make you think. It is there to make you try and fit it into some scheme of things. It is there because it doe not mean anything at all. It is there to show you that you can't relate everything to everything else just because you have a rupee's worth of reasoning faculty, one of the lowest faculties.' Pg 99 Among the Dervishes by Omar Burke.”
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