“There is one Cosmic Essence, all-pervading, all-knowing, all-powerful. This nameless formless essence can be approached by any name, any form, any symbol that suites the taste of the individual. Follow your religion, but try to understand the real purpose behind all of the rituals and traditions, and experience that Oneness.” TryingRealFormPurposeNamesIndividualPowerfulBehindsKnowingTasteTraditionEssenceSymbolsOnenessRitualCosmicNameless Author:Swami Satchidananda
“The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that was made by people like Thomas Aquinas, that was assumed doctrinally in that tradition. The Reformation rejected that model of reality and created a highly individualistic metaphysics in the sense that it located everything normative that can be said about reality in human perception, there being, of course, no other avenue of knowing. There is Scripture, there is conscience, there is perception itself.” PeopleHumansMadeSaidIdeasRealityUniverseCoursesKnowingPerceptionModelsConscienceTraditionScriptureTheologyRejectedMetaphysicsIntegrationHierarchyAvenuesReformationIndividualistic Author:Marilynne Robinson
“For me, the main thing is spontaneity and taking chances. You have to study and know the traditions, but then you have to play things that haven't been played before. It becomes a balance of knowing the tradition and using your own original voice to add to it.” KnowsPlayVoiceChanceKnowingStudyHavensBalanceTraditionOriginalsAddTake A ChanceSpontaneity Author:Dave Kikoski
“Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. And they understood the kind of release from piety that it represented every week.” PeopleYearsKindKnowingWeekUnderstoodTraditionReleaseSatireCharliePietyCharlie Hebdo Author:Scott Simon