The Physics of Angels Quotes

“Augustine’s separation of nature and grace, but he’s not willing to be too explicit about it. Meister Eckhart, who came in the next generation and stood on Aquinas’s shoulder, had the courage and directness to say, “Nature is grace.”
― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

“In quantum theory, in between one action and another, an entity such as a photon or electron exists as a “wave function.” And this wave function is spread out in space as a probability distribution. You can’t say exactly where it is. It’s only when it acts that it’s localized. The whole spread-out wave of probability collapses to a particular point. This is called the “collapse of the wave function.”
― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

“Interestingly, in quantum theory the wave function is represented mathematically by a many-dimensional formula; it’s not in ordinary three-dimensional space. When it’s in between locations where it acts, it’s in a kind of imaginary space that exists as a mathematical reality but not as a physical reality.”
― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

“To share one’s joy is one of the great felicities of living.”
― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

“the total good of the universe consists of the interrelationship of things and no part is complete and perfect in isolation from the whole .2”
― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

“angels are part of the universe in the sense that they do not constitute a universe on their own but are combined with the physical creation to form one, total world.”
― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

“Animism says that nature is alive and that all living beings are pervaded by souls. But souls needn’t necessarily be conscious. The soul of a plant, and even the vegetative psyche that organizes the growth of a human embryo, is not necessarily conscious. Most soul or psychic activities are unconscious or habitual. Even in our own case, the great majority of our psyche is unconscious. What he’s saying goes beyond animism. He is not simply saying that all nature is alive and that there are animating souls in all nature. If we think in terms of fields instead of souls, his doctrines imply not only that all things have power or energy organized by fields, but that they participate in consciousness and intelligence through the angels, and indeed through the angels participate in the divine nature. Their energy and power are also participations in the divine nature, mediated through the angelic hierarchies not as a blind communication of force, but always guided by intelligence.”
― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

“Animism says that nature is alive and that all living beings are pervaded by souls. But souls needn’t necessarily be conscious. The soul of a plant, and even the vegetative psyche that organizes the growth of a human embryo, is not necessarily conscious. Most soul or psychic activities are unconscious or habitual. Even in our own case, the great majority of our psyche is unconscious.”
― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

“there is no single thing in the entire universe which is outside the almighty embrace and safe-keeping of the divine power.”
― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

“Sine wave, and its mathematical relationship to circular motion. The point P moves around the circle at a constant speed, represented by the angular velocity ω. The up-and-down movement of A plotted against time is called a sine wave because the equation describing this motion involves the sine of the angle ω.”
― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

“There is, therefore, one source of light for everything which is illuminated, namely, God,”
― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

“As the book of Wisdom says, “This is wisdom, to love life.” Not just to know about it, but to love it. Wisdom brings together Logos and Eros, the pattern and the energy. By itself Logos might become knowledge, but together I think they bring about wisdom.”
― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

“Dionysius the Areopagite, a Syrian monk whose classic work The Celestial Hierarchies was written in the sixth century; Hildegard of Bingen, a German abbess of the twelfth century; and St. Thomas Aquinas, a philosopher-theologian of the thirteenth century.”
― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

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― Matthew Fox, The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet