“What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.” IfsKnowsWorldFeelsMeanPersonsSelfInterestAttentionObjectsSceneSilentCuriosityPassingPassingsThoughtfulAnxiousInclinationSpectators Book:Table-talk: Or Original Essays Source: Table-talk: Or Original Essays
“To encounter such a being is considered the ultimate karmic blessing in the sense that your life will be so configured that every single variant problematic karma will surface, which means you have the opportunity of passing through them all correctly, going over the ocean of the samsara and reaching nirvana yourself.” MeanOpportunityTeacherBlessingOceanUltimateSurfaceKarmaPassingPassingsEncountersReachingEnlightenedPassing ThroughSamsara Author:Frederick Lenz
“Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?” MeanBodyLightGrowsCausesWaterLinesSpaceDegreesEmptyDistanceGlassesEdgesPassingPassingsMediumsRaysCurvesCrystalsDenseEmpty SpaceBendingCompactRays Of LightCondensationPassing Out Book:Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light Source: Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light