The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
― W.B. Yeats
― W.B. Yeats
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
True piety lies in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
― Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
― Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
― Lord Byron
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
― Lord Byron
Nature is not mute. It is man who is asleep.
― Terrence Mckenna
― Terrence Mckenna
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm.
― Theodore Roosevelt, African Game Trails
― Theodore Roosevelt, African Game Trails
The proper response to reality is astonishment.
― Terence McKenna
― Terence McKenna
I awoke, only to find that the rest of the world is still asleep
― Leonardo da Vinci
― Leonardo da Vinci
Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance.
― Rumi
― Rumi
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
― Alan Watts, The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
― Alan Watts, The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
― John Ruskin
― John Ruskin
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
― Gautama Buddha
― Gautama Buddha
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
― Thomas Aquinas
― Thomas Aquinas
Underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and altogether different reality lies concealed.
― Friedrich Nietzsche
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Lastly, my favourite quote ever:
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.
― William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.
― William Blake
