Unity

Alan Watts – Existence Is Weird

Awareness, Consciousness, Energy, Existence, Experience, Identity, Linguistics, Love, Metaphysics, Nature, Perception, Philosophy, Power, Reality, Society, The Unknown, Unity

“It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd – uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don’t. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things. Why, of all possible worlds, this colossal and apparently unnecessary multitude of galaxies in a mysteriously curved space-time continuum, these myriads of differing tube-species playing frantic games of one-upmanship, these numberless ways of “doing it” from the elegant architecture of the snow crystal or the diatom to the startling magnificence of the lyrebird or the peacock?”
– Alan Watts

Michio Kaku – Will Mankind Destroy Itself?

Awareness, Consciousness, Cosmology, Earth, Energy, Existence, Nature, Peace, Perspective, Power, Reality, Science, Society, Space, The Unknown, Time, Unity

“It’s humbling to realize that the developmental gulf between a minuscule ant colony and our modern human civilization is only a tiny fraction of the distance between a Type 0 and a Type III civilization – a factor of 100 billion billion, in fact. Yet we have such a highly regarded view of ourselves, we believe a Type III civilization would find us irresistible and would rush to make contact with us. The truth is, however, they may be as interested in communicating with humans as we are keen to communicate with ants.”
– Michio Kaku

Mister Rogers & the US Senate

Art, Awareness, Compassion, Consciousness, Energy, Existence, Experience, Identity, Linguistics, Love, Peace, Perception, Philosophy, Reality, Society, Unity

“This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end each program by saying, ‘You’ve made this day a special day by just your being you. There’s no person in the whole world like you. And I like you just the way you are.’ And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service.”
– Fred Rogers

Terence Mckenna – Nobody is smarter than you are

Awareness, Consciousness, Energy, Existence, Experience, Identity, Linguistics, Love, Metaphysics, Nature, Perception, Philosophy, Psychonaut, Reality, Society, The Unknown, Unity

“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.”
– Terence McKenna

 

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