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"A Brief History of Everything"
by Ken Wilber
Random House, Inc. © 1996, Softcover |
"The wing will work only if these hundred mutations happen all at once, in one animal - and also these same mutations must occur simultaneously in another animal of the opposite sex, and then they somehow have to find each other, have dinner, a few drinks, mate, and have offspring with real functioning wings."
Page 23
"Calculations done by scientists form Fred Hoyle to F.B. Salisbury consistently show that twelve billion years isn't even enough to produce a single enzyme by chance. In other words, something other than chance is pushing the universe."
Page 26
"Evolution has a broad and general tendency to move in the direction of increasing complexity, increasing differentiation/integration, increasing organization/structuration, increasing relative autonomy, increasing telos."
Page 40
"So their insights are crippled in terms of how to relate this higher Self to the other quadrants, which are all interpreted rather narcissistically as mere extensions of their Self. The new age movement is full of this type of Self-only interpretation."
Page 103
"Try to feel yourself right now - get a good sense of being yourself - and notice, that self is just another object in awareness. It isn't even a real subject, a real self, it's just another object in awareness. This little self and its thoughts parade by in front of you just like the coulds float by through the sky."
Page 222
"Resting in the pure Witness, there is this background absence of Emptiness, and this is "experienced," not as an object, but as a vast expanse of Freedom and Liberation from the constrictions of identifying with these puny little subjects and objects that enter the stream of time and are ground up in that agonizing torrent."
Page 223
"But you are the Witness, the pure Seer that is itself pure Emptiness, pure Freedom, pure Openness, the great Emptiness through which the entire parade passes, never touching you, never tempting you, never hurting you, never consoling you."
Page 224
"Because at some point, as you inquire into the Witness, and rest in the Witness, the sense of being a Witness "in here" completely vanishes itself, and the Witness turns out to the everything that is witnessed."
Page 226
"This One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to it."
Page 231
"Each time you enter this state, more of these afflictions are burned away. And after a certain number and type of these entrances - often four - you have burned away everything there is to burn, and so you can enter this state at will, and remain there permanently. You can enter nirvana permanently, and samsara ceases to arise in your case. The entire world of Form ceases to arise."
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