“A very dear friend, who’s passed away some four, five years now, used to say ... that he believed we are all different shards of God, all experiencing life so that God could experience everything, in every single different way, because God wants to experience life as you, and life as me, and life as him, and life as her, so that God is having all of his experiences through us.”
Abby Wynne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHzxFkdwZwM
“Nature is God giving birth to itself." Friedrich Schelling
"not a direct quote, but captures the essence of Schelling's philosophy, where Nature is not merely a collection of objects but a dynamic, self-creating force connected to the Divine or Absolute. His concept of Nature and the Absolute as a unified, self-unfolding entity, not separate, but rather different expressions of the same underlying reality." Google's AI
“I am that living fiery essence of the divine substance
that flows in the beauty of the fields.
I shine on the water;
I burn in the sun and moon and the stars.
The mysterious force of the invisible world is mine.
I sustain the breath of all living beings.
I breathe in the grass and in the flowers;
and when the waters flow like living things, it is I . .
I am the force that lies hidden in the winds;
they take their source from me,
as a man may move because he breathes;
fire burns by my breast.
All these live because I am in them
and am their life.
I am Wisdom.
The blaring thunder of the Word
by which all things were made is mine.
I permeate all things that they may not die;
I am life.”
Hildegard of Bingen
"Nothing human is foreign to me" attributed to the Roman playwright Terence, essentially means that as a human being, nothing that is part of the human experience is strange or alien to him.
"When you practice these holy teachings
slowly the clouds of sorrow will melt away
and the sun of wisdom and true joy
will be shining
in the clear sky
of your mind."
Kalu Rinpoche
“This feeling that Jung had, that if man lived his life ... symbolically, then it was almost as if, what the theologians called God, and my Zulus called M-cooloo-coolo - the first spirit - had passed over some of his power and some of his responsibilities to the human being and that the human being had a God-like task to perform in creation. And the extent to which he performed it, he derived his meaning. That's a very important part of Jung's thinking.” Sir Laurens van der Post - Author, statesman, London.
which correctly produces, protects & cultivates all things in Nature
and assimilates & unites it
in our own mind & body.”
Morihei Ueshiba O’Sensei – founder of the martial art of Aikido
“As our consciousness evolves, we become more attuned to the subtler dimensions of being and our interconnectedness with everything. Ultimately, individual consciousness merges with the Oneness that underpins all of existence, where there is no separation at all – no ‘me,’ no ‘you,’ no other. Oneness is the fundamental fabric of all existence, the essence of what we all Are.”
Melinda Edwards. “Psyche & Spirit. How a Psychiatrist Found Divinity through her Lifelong Quest for Truth and her Daughter’s Autism.” 2024.
"Everyone’s spiritual path will unfold in its own unique way. What we’re doing is allowing ourselves to be opened up to the higher realm, to the divinities, and to the masculine & the feminine divine, but also to its different manifestations. ... So it’s not to try and have an experience that we think we should have in order to have a rich spiritual life. It’s to allow it to come in, and tell us what way it wants to manifest in us, with us, for us, as our guide.” Aedamar Kirrane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHzxFkdwZwM
“We might as well stay open-minded & surrender to the endlessness of it.” Francis Carr, in Edward St. Aubyn's 2025 novel, “Parallel Lines.”
Van Morrison - "Into the Mystic"
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