Breakfast at the Victory Quotes

“When we forget that knowledge rises from ignorance and think of it instead as a way of overcoming ignorance, knowledge can have the ironic effect of limiting our vision.”
― James P. Carse, Breakfast at the Victory: A Galactic Memoir on Mystical Vision and the Journey into Boundlessness

“All studies in which the origins of thought point beyond themselves to deeper origins are sacred studies. Those we call teachers may or may not be teachers. Those around whom surprising thinking emerges are teachers.”
― James P. Carse, Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience

“We can love only what cannot be fully recognized, what cannot yield its mysteries to thought”
― James P. Carse, Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience