Category: Quotes
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Iain McGilchrist on Wholeness
The purpose of this post is to highlight some of what Iain McGilchrist writes about wholeness in his two books The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things together with my questions. Ian McGilchrist writes (my emphasis in italics): …there is the primacy of wholeness: the right hemisphere deals with the world before…
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Jon Young on Deep Connection
The following is from a conversation with Jon Young on Nature Connection and How to Prepare for the Future on March 15, 2020. Jon Young said: We can all go sit in nature and remember what it feels like to be connected to it. …and then remember we’re part of this living earth, and that it…
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Lars Linder om när orden lägger sig i vägen
Följande citat är hämtat från en recension av KG Hammars nya roman Den längsta resan i DN 2024-09-10 (min kursivering): ”KG Hammar vill få oss att se hur allt det där, naturkänsla, mystik, pliktmoral, hängde samman i Hammarskjölds huvud. Det gör han väl delvis också – men till ett högt pris. Mannen vi möter…vill nämligen…
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John Gribbin on Instantaneous Interconnectedness
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and the parts of the whole are interconnected by feedbacks — feedbacks which seem to operate instantaneously. This is where we can begin to make a fruitful analogy with living systems.” —John Gribbin https://johngribbinscience.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/a-quantum-myth-for-our-times/ “…each individual charged particle — including each electron — is instantaneously aware of…
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Retrospective 2024-35
This is a retrospective of week 35, 2024 (2024-08-20–2024-09-01). This week, I’ve spent a couple of days in the northern part of Sweden. I visited Umeå and Skellefteå. Bonnitta Roy has written an interesting essay about Christopher Alexander on Generating a Living World (part 1 & part 2). Roy is one of few who sees…
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Retrospective 2024-32
This is a retrospective of week 32, 2024 (2024-08-05–2024-08-11). I’ve started reading two books this week: Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylor, and Christ Way, Buddha Way: Jesus as Wisdom Teacher and a Zen Perspective on His Teachings by Tim Langdell. Charles Taylor writes the following about his book Cosmic…
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Retrospective 2024-31
This is a retrospective of week 31, 2024 (2024-07-29–2024-08-04). This week I’ve been reading two books: I’ve also read the following articles about generative AI: I found the following quote of Iain McGilchrist in a mail 2024-08-02 from Eric Schaetzle to the McGilchrist Irregulars: I don’t think practices in themselves will ever achieve what needs…
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Retrospective 2024-29
This is a retrospective of week 29, 2024 (2024-07-15–2024-07-21). Ulrika, my grandchild’s mother, sent a beautiful quote this week: Before a child speaks, it sings.Before they write, they paint.As soon as they stand, they dance.Art is the basis of human expression.—Phylicia Rashad I search the web and found a research article in the British Journal…
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David Hawkins on Reason, Love, and Joy
Reason The shortcomings of this level [Reason] are the failure to clearly distinguish the difference between symbols and what they represent… At this level, it is easy…to become infatuated with concepts and theories… Intellectualizing can become an end in itself. Reason is limited in that it does not afford the capacity for the discernment of…
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David Hawkins on Organizing Principles
Attractors are organizing principles, and organizing principles have different levels of power. … Obviously the one attractor pattern that dominates all of us is the attractor pattern of life itself. Just as nothing in our universe can escape the influence of gravity, either the principles upon which we operate coincide with the attractor pattern of…