“Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi; but after many years of this process, he was enlightened. He was no longer a finite individual.” YearsMotherIndividualProcessCrySeekingEnlightenedHinduismFiniteMeditatingSamadhiKali Author:Frederick Lenz
“The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each individual, according to the extent of the knowledge of the finite being, who employs his own feeble powers in contemplating the infinite: but it rests upon those doctrines of kindness and benevolence which that religion claims and enforces, not merely in favour of man himself but of every creature susceptible of pain or of happiness.” MenDifferentChristianPainValuesIndividualViewsKindnessCreaturesClaimsInfiniteCreatorDoctrineContemplatingFavourFiniteBenevolenceSusceptibleTrue Value Author:Charles Babbage
“Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.” MindMeanCertainIndividualAnswersResultsVirtueCapableSeriesObservationPermitCapabilityQuestioningFiniteMeasurement Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.” WayWarWholeBeautifulFatherGamesIndividualSimpleStudyPiecesKingsEternalComplexesNobleQueensBoardsSavagesFiniteElegantKnightsBishopsPiousIvoryHaughtyIndividual Power Book:The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave Source: The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave
“Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.” WorldWantIndividualStepsBuddhismInfiniteKicksFiniteTransitory Author:Frederick Lenz