Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent Quotes

“the world cannot be other than it is, because there is nothing other for it to be.”
― Rami M. Shapiro, Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent: Sacred Teachings—Annotated & Explained: Sacred Teachings―Annotated & Explained

“Identifying it, I call it Tao36 Forced to describe it, I call it great Great means passing Passing means receding Receding means returning Therefore the Tao is great”
― Rami M. Shapiro, Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent: Sacred Teachings—Annotated & Explained: Sacred Teachings―Annotated & Explained

“is wrong to claim that all Gods are the same or that all Gods are variations of the One God. They aren’t. Each God arises in its time and place and reflects the values of that time and place, or at least the values of its priests, prophets, sages, and gurus.”
― Rami M. Shapiro, Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent: Sacred Teachings—Annotated & Explained: Sacred Teachings―Annotated & Explained

“Knowing yourself as a wave is knowing the relative world, the world of seemingly separate beings. Knowing yourself as the sea is knowing the absolute world, the world of the One who is all these seemingly separate waves.”
― Rami M. Shapiro, Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent: Sacred Teachings—Annotated & Explained: Sacred Teachings―Annotated & Explained