William Irwin Thompson > Quotes

“That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.”
― William Irwin Thompson

“The acid test is that all paranoids and fundamentalists lack a sense of humor, for humor is a chaos flux and flexibility, of ambiguity and multi-dimensionality, and that kind of erotic liveliness is precisely what the fundamentalist is trying to eliminate in holding rigidly to doctrine.”
― William Irwin Thompson

“It is not enough to raise consciousness. One must lower the spirit into the earth to embody a change in things as basic as food, shelter, and livelihood.”
― William Irwin Thompson

“Fast-fame takeouts litter the information superhighway strips of the new electronic america.”
― William Irwin Thompson, Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness

“To take a step into the future we need to shift our weight to the opposite foot”
― William Irwin Thompson, Darkness and scattered light: Four talks on the future