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Arthur Koestler
“If Nature abhors the void, the mind abhors what is meaningless. Show a person an ink-blot, and he will start at once to organise it into a hierarchy of shapes, tentacles, wheels, masks, a dance of figures.”
Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine

Arthur Koestler
“Whatever the nature of organizing relations may be,' J. Needham wrote in 1932, 'they form the central problem of biology, and biology will be fruitful in the future only if this is recognized. The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon compounds to the equilibrium of species and ecological wholes, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.”
Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation

Arthur Koestler
“I am trying to stress a point which they do not sufficiently emphasize, or tend to overlook altogether-namely, that the organism is not a mosaic aggregate of elementary physico-chemical processes, but a hierarchy in which each member, from the sub-cellular level upward, is a closely integrated structure, equipped with self-regulatory devices, and enjoys an advanced form of self-government.”
Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine

Alan W. Watts
“But by meditation I do not mean a practice or exercise undertaken as a preparation for something, as a means to some future end, or as a discipline in which one is concerned with progress. A better word may be "contemplation" or even "centering," for what I mean is a slowing down of time, of mental hurry, and an allowing of one's attention to rest in the present—so coming to the unseeking observation, not of what should be, but of what is.”
Alan W. Watts, The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

Alan W. Watts
“The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern[.]”
Alan W. Watts, The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

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