Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

Reach out to the fullness of God’s grace strength for any accomplishment.

(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.

People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.

Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.