Quotes
"In the early years of my research, I became enthusiastic about these exciting new observations and made several attempts to discuss them with my Czech colleagues. I quickly found that my scientific reputation would be at stake if I continued to do so. During the first decade of this work, much of my research was done in isolation, and I had to carefully censor my communications with other professionals. I found only a handful of friends with whom I could openly talk about my findings."[1]
"...the potential for a mystical experience is the natural birthright of all human beings..."[2]
"We do believe in life after death. The many deities and spirits come from that belief. We return in the form of animals, trees, birds, spirits and other forms. We are part of the whole. We are the whole. We are a part of the spirit world now. We will be a part of it in the future. We have always been a part of it ... all things are one, and all life is one in one circle of time. Paiute Medicine Man (Toombs 1991)"[3]
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- "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." - Rumi
- "The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation. Things you think are separate and different are actually one and the same." - Guru Nanak
- "The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you." - Ali ibn Abi Talib
- "We are all cells in the same body of humanity." - Peace Pilgrim
- "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female... then you will enter the kingdom." - Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel of Thomas)
- "God is closer to you than yourself, nearer than your jugular vein." - Rumi
- "The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say." - Khalil Gibran
- "The ultimate truth is that there is no ultimate truth." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
- "Love is the bridge between you and everything." - Rumi
Footnotes
- ↑ Grof, Christina, and Stanislav Grof. The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth Through Transformational Crises. TarcherPerigee, 1992. https://amzn.to/2UtkgP1. p. 25
- ↑ Grof, Christina, and Stanislav Grof. The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth Through Transformational Crises. TarcherPerigee, 1992. https://amzn.to/2UtkgP1. p. 22
- ↑ Toombs quoted in Mills, Antonia, and Richard Slobodin. Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 1994. p. .3
