Tiago F

“Only as Creators! It has caused me the greatest trouble, and still causes me the greatest trouble, to realize that what things are called is unspeakably more important than what they are. The reputation, the name and appearance, the importance, the usual measure and weight of things each being originally almost always an error and arbitrary, thrown over the things like a garment and quite alien to their essence and even to their exterior- have gradually, by the belief therein and the continuous growth from generation to generation, grown as it were on- and-into things and become their very body. What was appearance at the very beginning becomes almost always the essence in the end and operates as the essence! What a fool he would be who would think it enough to point out this origin and this nebulous veil of illusion in order to destroy that which virtually passes for the world namely, so-called ‘reality’! We can destroy only as creators! But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and valuations in order in the long run to create new ‘things’.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God”.”
― Bertrand Russell

“I shall speak of the venerable objects of religious belief. Whoever talks of such matters inevitably runs the risk of being torn to pieces by the two parties who are in mortal conflict about those very things. This conflict is due to the strange supposition that a thing is true only if it presents itself as a physical fact. Thus some people believe it to be physically true that Christ was born as the son of a virgin, while others deny this as a physical impossibility. Everyone can see that there is no logical solution to this conflict and that one would do better not to get involved in such sterile disputes. Both are right and both are wrong. Yet they could easily reach agreement if only they dropped the word “physical.” “Physical” is not the only criterion of truth: there are also psychic truths which can neither be explained nor proved nor contested in any physical way. If, for instance, a general belief existed that the river Rhine had at one time flowed backwards from its mouth to its source, then this belief would in itself be a fact even though such an assertion, physically understood, would be deemed utterly incredible. Beliefs of this kind are psychic facts which cannot be contested and need no proof.”
― C.G. Jung

“Gnosis is the root of Christianity, the living flame of Buddhism, the foundation of the Koran... The secret Science of the Sufis and the whirling Dervishes... The secret Doctrine of Buddhism and Taoism... The secret Magic of the Nordics... The Wisdom of Hermes, Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed, Quetzalcoatl, etc., is within Gnosis. The Doctrine of the Christ is Gnosis.” “Within Gnosis is found all of Ancient Wisdom.”
― Samael Aun Weor