Steve Seven > Steve's Quotes

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
― Albert Einstein

“Magic is not, as the followers of Epicurus and Aristotle think, utterly incoherent, but, as the experts in these things prove, is a consistent system, which has principles known to very few.”
― Origen, Contra Celsus 1.24. (transl. Henry Chadwick, 1953)

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
― Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart

“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”
― Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed

“We write to free ourselves and help others.”
― Brandon Garic Notch

“San Juan points out the problem of disciplining the small child. He tells us, for example, that it is not reasonable or practical or good that the small child should simply do as it pleases. That it should have opportunity for self-expression is good, but that it should grow without discipline, means that ultimately it will place a heavy burden upon society. It is not good that the child should regard every restriction upon its action as a frustration. It must learn to recognize that many so-called frustrations actually are, or must become, voluntary sacrifices for the common good.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Dark Night of the Soul: Man's Instinctive Search for Reality

“Every time that Jesus taught a Gentile, every time that he criticized the religious leaders, every time that he over-turned a standard interpretation of the Torah, Jesus was making a powerful political statement.”
― Steve Seven

“The truth cannot be held by one person. The truth is so much bigger than that. To try and claim that one has the truth is to demean the profundity of truth. The truth lies between us, in the no-man's land that exists between two divergent points of view in our transactions.”
― Steve Seven