philosophy

Is not the sky

Is not the sky a father and the earth a mother and are not all living things with feet and roots their children?

Science becomes dangerous

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Love is trust

  • Love is trust
  • Love is smell
  • Love is how you treat someone well under pressure.

There are no atheists in foxholes

“There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.

We are four dimensional beings

We are four dimensional beings in three dimensional bodies, looking out two-dimensional windshields.

except that which makes life worthwhile

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets.

in an address at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, March 18, 1968

Our yearning for loving connections

For what we are beginning to wake up to today ...is that we have for millenia structured our social institutions and our systems of values precisely in ways that serve to block, distort, and pervert our enormous human yearning for loving connections.

"Sacred Pleasure", p. 383

Follow your bliss

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

Faith

Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions.

God who endowed us

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect, had intended for us to forgo their use.

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