Wonder
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“Lying there, I thought of my own culture, of the assembly of books in the library at Alexandria; of the deliberations of Darwin and Mendel in their respective gardens; of the architectural conception of the cathedral at Chartres; of Bach's cello suites, the philosophy of Schweitzer, the insights of Planck and Dirac. Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?”
― Arctic Dreams
― Arctic Dreams
“Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.”
― Whispers from the Other Shore: A Spiritual Search-East and West
― Whispers from the Other Shore: A Spiritual Search-East and West
“A mind too active is no mind at all.”
― Selected Letters of Theodore Roethke
― Selected Letters of Theodore Roethke
“Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“how can it be that the modern human mind is capable of precise logical analysis, and yet simultaneously permits us to accept religious beliefs that should crumble beneath even the slightest rational scrutiny?”
― Origin
― Origin
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