Some quotes...to ponder

[Pythagorean]

"It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."

Hebrews 10:31

"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something that is normally beyond his reach."

E.M. Forster

"The recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder states of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making."

William James

"A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he…

And now the grass seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.

What do you think has become of the young and old men?
And what do you think has become of the women and children?
They are alive and well somewhere,
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contain'd between my hat and boots,
And peruse manifold objects, no two alike and every one good,
The earth good and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.
I am not an earth nor an adjunct of an earth,
I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself..."

Walt Whitman

[chad3006]

Great quotes!