Intellectual Rays

"Many an object is not seen, 

though it falls within our range of visual ray,

because it does not come within the

range of our intellectual ray,

i.e., we are not looking for it.

So, in the largest sense,

we find only the world we look for."

- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Place

"There is no place at all

that is not looking at you."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

(1875 - 1926)

True Mysticism

"True mysticism is 

active and practical,

not passive and theoretical. 

It is an organic life-process, 

something which the

whole self does; 

not something as to

which its intellect 

holds an opinion."

- William James (1842 - 1910)

Transmuted Symbols

"The physical object, to me, 

is merely a stepping stone

to an inner world where the object,

with the help of the subconscious drives 

and focuses perceptions,

becomes transmuted into 

a symbol whose life is beyond the

life of the objects we know."

- Clarence J. Laughlin (1905 - 1985)

Mysterious Reality

"We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see."

- Michelangelo Antonioni (1912 - 2007)

Soul of Objects

"Nature is not matter only,

she is also spirit.

Spirit seems to be the

 inside of things...

the soul of objects."

- C. G. Jung (1875-1961)

Quiet Mind

"When the mind is

very quiet, 

completely still,

when there is not a movement 

of thought and therefore no experience,

no observer, then that very stillness 

has its own creative understanding.

In that stillness the mind is 

transformed into something else."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 - 1986)