Duane Tilden

“All the world of experience, including matter, is the material manifestation of transcendent forms of consciousness.”
― Amit Goswami, Physics of the Soul: The Quantum Book of Living, Dying, Reincarnation, and Immortality

“The United States of America” can mean two quite different things. The first is a certain physical territory, largely on the North American continent, including all such geographical and biological features as lakes, mountains and rivers, skies and clouds, plants, animals, and people. The second is a sovereign political state, existing in competition with many other sovereign states jostling one another around the surface of this planet. The
first sense is concrete and material; the second, abstract and conceptual.
If the United States continues for very much longer to exist in this second sense, it will cease to exist in the first.”
― Alan W. Watts, Does It Matter?

“Ritual, art, poesy, drama, music, dance, philosophy, science, myth, religion are all as essential to man as his daily bread: man's true life consists not alone in the work activities that directly sustain him, but in the symbolic activities which give significance both to the processes of work and their ultimate products and consummations.”
― Lewis Mumford, The Condition of Man

“An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age