“If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the path of the orbit of his thoughts. Distances are not gauged, ellipses not measured, velocities not ascertained, times not known. Nevertheless, the recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year.” IfsMenLifeYearsMindDoeLastsLife IsSufferingNextKnownPathWeekDistanceLast YearNeverthelessNext YearOrbitNext WeekVelocityRecurrencePeriodicity Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection
“Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!” IfsWaterPathDistanceFishes Author:Kabir
“If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want to go-that there is a distance between you and the fully realized state-then the path can become a way of holding liberation at arm's length.” IfsWayWantNeedsStatesPathArmsDistanceLiberationLengthTake Time Book:When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening Source: When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening
“The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that the path of a planet should be an ellipse .... It is this logical thinking that is the real meat of the physical sciences. The social scientist keeps the skin and throws away the meat.... His theorems no more follow from his postulates than the hunches of a horse player follow logically from the latest racing news. The result is guesswork clad in long flowing robes of gobbledygook.” ThinkingShouldLongRealScienceSocialResultsPathPlayerPlanetsTheoryNewsLogicSkinsScientistHorseDistanceAttractionConclusionMeatLogicalRacingSquaresRobesTheoremsLogical ThinkingHunchesPhysical ScienceRemorselessGuesswork Author:Anthony Standen