Nader Ibrahim

“Humans are just the sort of organisms that interpret and modify their agency through their conception of themselves. This is a complicated biological fact about us.”
― Amélie Rorty

“This recognition of the two-sidedness of the One is what makes the difference between the exoteric and esoteric aspects of a religion, and the latter is always guarded and is always
mystical or ''closed'' [...] because of the danger that the opposites will be confused if their unity is made explicit. It is thus that mysticism is never quite orthodox, never wholly respectable.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity

“In knowing the world we humanize it, and if, as we discover it, we are astonished at its dimensions and its complexity, we should be just as astonished that we have the brains to perceive it.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“Sas soon as we label something as "natural", we attach to it the powerful implication that any change from its current state would degrade and damage the way it is "supposed" to be”
― William Cronon, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature