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Category: Perceptions

  • Phoenix

    Phoenix

    phoenix also phenix (fe?niks) noun
    1. Mythology. A bird in  <<…OLE_Obj…>> Egyptian <egypt.html> mythology that lived in the desert for 500 years and then consumed itself by fire, later to rise renewed from its ashes.

    2. A person or thing of unsurpassed excellence or beauty; a paragon.

    We should think of utopia as a world in which individuals and groups had the freedom, will, energy, and talent to make and remake their lives unencumbered by insufficiency and the fear of violent death”.  – George Kateb


    Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.  – Gaston Bachelard


    Image by A.J. Kalin

  • The Green Man

     green_man kidhr

    There are legends of him (Khidr) in which, like Osiris, he is dismembered and reborn; and prophecies connecting him, like the Green Man, with the end of time. His name means the Green One or Verdant One, he is the voice of inspiration to the aspirant and committed artist. He can come as a white light or the gleam on a blade of grass, but more often as an inner mood. The sign of his presence is the ability to work or experience with tireless enthusiasm beyond one’s normal capacities. In this there may be a link across cultures,…one reason for the enthusiasm of the medieval sculptors for the Green Man may be that he was the source of inspiration. – William Anderson, Green Man: The Archetype of our Oneness with the Earth

    I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.     – Mark Twain

  • Objective Perception

    Objective perception

    Objective perception means perceiving reality, all that confronts our awareness, as it is. – A.H. Almaas

  • Heresy

    cat universe

    Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome on Easter Sunday, in the year 1600, because he insisted on the infinity of the universe. He believed the stars were not on one sphere but outside the sphere of Jupiter, and that they filled all of space. The reason the church objected to this was that it left no space for god. Our father in heaven had no place to go, and that was very threatening to the entire system.

    Heresy is essential for creativity, insight, and progress. Whenever heresy is silenced great suffering and evil ensued. – Brian Wilson

  • Lunar Moon

    moon lunar

    The Arabic alphabet is based on the phases of the moon 28 letters are formed based on the 28 lunar shapes.

    The moon made it possible for man to evolve and so exist.
    The moon made it possible for him to develop mathematics and science.
    The moon made it possible for him to transcend Earth and conquer space.
    Isaac Asimov – Triumph Of The Moon

    Image by AntarcticaFilmArts

  • Meaning

     meaning almaas

    Meaning is not something we can get to with our minds; it is not an answer found in the mind. – A.H. Almaas

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