John Brown > John's Quotes

“First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox.”
― John K. Brown

“Everything good is good because of the love it contains.”
― John K. Brown

“The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something.”
― John K. Brown

“Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.”
― John K. Brown

“That which isn’t love, isn’t god.”
― John K. Brown

“Love isn’t self-centered, even at the supreme scale.”
― John K. Brown

“I used to be terrified of death. My grandfather was terminal in the hospital across from my high school, yet I never visited him. That fact still haunts me to this day. Years later, my arms were around my grandmother as she struggled with her last breaths. I told her we were with her and everything was going to be okay. She died as I held her tightly and I felt her body lose life. It was the most peaceful moment I ever experienced, and I felt joy for her. It was an emotional, intellectual, and spiritual moment for me. I wasn’t afraid anymore.... One day years later I received the phone call every parent dreads. My daughter was in a serious automobile accident. As I raced to her I prepared myself for the news she had died. Once again, I felt an unexpected and profound emotion. She lived, but in the face of that horrifying time there was a strange overall calm. I realized, no matter what, everything was going to be okay. I remembered I wasn’t afraid anymore.”
― John K. Brown

“All three explanations—eternal life, reincarnation, and nothingness—are descriptions of the same reality.”
― John K. Brown

“Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all.”
― John K. Brown

“If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.”
― John K. Brown

“The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to that human lifespan. Relatively speaking, short and long lifespans are the same. Both are non-existent compared to the infinite that’s ahead. Furthermore, we cannot change the past, and have no guarantees for the future. We are only in charge of the present. The present is nothing—and it is everything.”
― John K. Brown

“Just as we will never grasp the full meaning of God, we will also never grasp the full meaning of love.”
― Thomas Jay Oord, The Nature of Love: A Theology

“Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”
― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.”
― Meghan Daum, The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

“I think that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed in certain complex ways.”
― Max Tegmark, Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

“Being present is being connected to All Things.”
― S. Kelley Harrell

“A life without love is of no account. Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, eastern or western…divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The universe turns differently when fire loves water.”
― Shams Of Tabriz

“Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.”
― David Bohm

“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
― Aristotle

“Everything Forever

Time is one enormous moment
Where children play
not knowing of a tomorrow
where people walk along an ocean
and gaze in wet air
This sense of separation and loss
is all illusion
though old men tell of the past
as if it is gone somewhere else
to children who listen
as if it used to be
We all walk here in time
not yet knowing
as we ponder the mystery
and animals listen
that all in this same moment
the world begins
and the world ends
while these waves
crash upon the shore
regardless
And now as I touch your hand
time will stand still
and trap something there forever
for us to view from some heaven
as we are forever born
into an endless moment”
― Gevin Giorbran, Everything Forever: Learning To See Timelessness