food for thought
"heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. all of the gods, all of the heavens, all of the worlds, are within us. they are magnified by dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other. that is what myth is. myth is a manifestation in symbolic images, in metaphorical images of the energies of the body in conlflict with each other." - joseph campbell
"He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know." - Tao-te Ching
"The seat of the soul is where the inner and outer worlds meet." - novalis
"Now according to the normal way of thinking about the Christian religion, we cannont identify with Jesus, we have to imitate Jesus. To say, 'I and the father are one,' as Jesus said, is blasphemy for us. However, in the Thomas gospel that was dug up in Egypt some forty years ago, Jesus says,'He who drinks from my mouth will become as I am, and I shall be he.' Now, that is exactly Buddhism. We are all manifestations of Buddha consciousness, or Christ consciousness, only we don't know it. The word 'Buddha' means 'the one who waked up.' We are all to do that - to wake up to the Christ or Buddha consciousness within us." - Joseph Campbell
"God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature - sounds like a funny religion." - Dr. D.T. Suzuki
"He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know." - Tao-te Ching
"The seat of the soul is where the inner and outer worlds meet." - novalis
"Now according to the normal way of thinking about the Christian religion, we cannont identify with Jesus, we have to imitate Jesus. To say, 'I and the father are one,' as Jesus said, is blasphemy for us. However, in the Thomas gospel that was dug up in Egypt some forty years ago, Jesus says,'He who drinks from my mouth will become as I am, and I shall be he.' Now, that is exactly Buddhism. We are all manifestations of Buddha consciousness, or Christ consciousness, only we don't know it. The word 'Buddha' means 'the one who waked up.' We are all to do that - to wake up to the Christ or Buddha consciousness within us." - Joseph Campbell
"God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature - sounds like a funny religion." - Dr. D.T. Suzuki