{"quotes":[{"text":"I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.","author":"Walt Whitman","tags":["mysticism","poetry","spirituality","transcendentalism"],"id":4871,"author_id":"Walt+Whitman"},{"text":"Once the lotus of your inner divinity gets full-blown and you reach the mental state where all the religious giants of human history experienced the all-encompassing sense of godliness, the exuberance of the human mind turns infinite. Awakening into that state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness mind brain","consciousness raising","divine self","meditation","mindfulness","mindfulness","moses","muhammad","muhammad-pbuh","neurotheology","nirvana","nondual-philosophy","nondualism","nonduality","peace","pearls-of-wisdom","philosophy","philosophy","self-realization","transcendence","transcendence","transcendentalism"],"id":34684,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["transcendentalism","zen"],"id":41459,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["artificial-intelligence","atheism","augmented-reality","inspirational-life","posthumanism","transcendentalism"],"id":64242,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"In the non-dual state, God, soul and universe are essentially one absolute system which is all-pervading, uncreated, self-luminous and eternal.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["advaita","advaita-vedanta","god","meditation","mindfulness","nondual","nondual-philosophy","nondualism","nonduality","nonduality-yoga","philosophy-of-life","philosophy","religious-freedom","transcendentalism"],"id":66316,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"That law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms, and bodily vigor becomes mental and moral vigor. The bread he eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes, in higher laboratories, imagery and thought; and in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the right compound interest; this is capital doubled, quadrupled, centupled; man raised to his highest power. The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritual creation and not in augmenting animal existence.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["economy","thrift","transcendentalism","wealth"],"id":90519,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Each form is inadequate, like a graft to be rejected by its intractable and unrelenting host and thus can only serve a brief and momentary purpose coherent to a context rooted in contiguous reason. This unbridled brash Spirit is, to itself, burdensome, yet dynamic, for it sees no flaw in working within the confines of a closed system to achieve ends that extend beyond it. This Spirit is, in fact, self-deceptive for to achieve such ends, it becomes necessary to bound manipulable fragments of the Self with a twine by which these parts can be joined indissolubly and maneuvered adroitly with the skill of a marionettist.","author":"Ashim Shanker","tags":["ephemerality","evanescence","fleeting","form","marionette","multiple-universes","parasitism","past-lives","poetry","puppetry","spirit","transcendentalism"],"id":101553,"author_id":"Ashim+Shanker"},{"text":"The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe. Therefore the poet is not any permissive potentate, but is emperor in his own right. Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit it to imitate the sayers. The poet does not wait for the hero or the sage, but, as they act and think primarily, so he writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning the others, though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants; as sitters or models in the studio of a painter, or as assistants who bring building materials to an architect.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["neoplatonism","poetry","transcendentalism"],"id":122932,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Money is representative, and follows the nature and fortunes of the owner...The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents. His bones ache with the days' work that earned it. He knows how much land it represents - how much rain, frost and sunshine. He knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing. Try to lift his dollar; you must lift all that weight. In the city, where money follows the skit of a pen or a lucky rise in exchange, it comes to be looked on as light.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["money","transcendentalism","wealth"],"id":125099,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"I realized the universe had consumed my whole entity with its divine sensation of eternal bliss. All I could consciously perceive in that state of mind was absolute oneness. I felt being one with the banyan tree, under which I was sitting. I felt one with the corns in the field. I felt one with the sky and the clouds in it. As if everything was me, and I was everything. I didn’t have any perception of time or space. All that there was, was an all- pervading eternity – a state of non-dualism.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness-mind-brain","consciousness-raising","meditation","mindfulness","mindfulness","neurotheology","nirvana","nondual-philosophy","nondualism","nonduality","peace","pearls-of-wisdom","philosophy","philosophy","self-realization","transcendence","transcendence","transcendentalism"],"id":158509,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}