Category: Quotes
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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…
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David Hawkins on Love and Humanness
There is great power in a principle such as love. We know the truth of this from our own human experiences—that out of love we would do things and take risks that would be ridiculous from a logical viewpoint. We have experienced this in the matter of personal vendettas. We resent someone for a lifetime…
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Christopher Alexander on Descartes
Christopher Alexander has the following to say about René Descartes in The Nature of Order, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life (italics in the original text): …Descartes not only invented the method of observation which in effect we have continued to use unchanged for several hundred years, but that in addition he saw clearly what…
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Retrospective 2024-10
This is a retrospective of week 10, 2024 (2024-03-04–2024-03-10). I finished reading Anticipatory Systems by Robert Rosen last week. I am currently working on a review of this book. Here is my review of Rosen’s book Essays on Life Itself for those who might be interested. I listened to a podcast with Dean Radin this…
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Retrospective 2024-09
This is a retrospective of week 9, 2024 (2024-02-26–2024-03-03). I finished reading Robert Rosen’s Anticipatory Systems (AS) this week. Below are some quotes from AS and from podcast I’ve listened to during the week (my emphasis in italics): Rosen’s scientific legacy is the result of scientific commitment that excluded compromise as a path to acceptance…
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Retrospective 2024-01
This is a retrospective of the first week 2024 (2024-01-01–2024-01-07). I will write in both English and Swedish because I write for myself. Newborn thoughts are easier to express in my native language (Swedish). However, most of what I read is in English and then I will stick to English. For the most part, I…