“The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?” MenChildrenWholeJoySpiritualityUniverseNamesSpacePossibilityHolyStonesTasksEternityInfiniteBoundsPhilosopherBrilliantEndlessInnocentConquerRejoiceQuestsGreat WorkAvenuesHeirsAmenPlaygroundsInsatiableHoly Grail Book:Little Essays Toward Truth Source: Little Essays Toward Truth
“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.” TryingWholeSeemsScienceHumanityUniverseAlivePicksStonesUnityFamiliarWildernessSympatheticBrotherlyTalkative Author:John Muir
“Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.” WellsSeemsUniverseEasierStonesSandGrainGrains Of Sand Author:Peter J. Carroll
“The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.” IfsMindWellsRealRealityAgeUniverseEnergyProcessPerceptionFlowStonesConnectionsEdgesIntellectScreensFleshSensesEndlessConsistentCosmicSteelMysticalFluxShimmerCosmic Energy Author:Peter Matthiessen
“... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.” IfsThinkingWayRealityTruthUniverseOpinionFeetWallFitStonesGapsThinkerBootsCoatsFitting Book:The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding Source: The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding
“Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!” LifeMadeUniverseEnemyRiversStonesCrossesJust Live Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.” EndsUniverseStarsStonesTrainBoundsRollingTravelerRestlessAstronautRolling StonesSpace TravelSaturnPlutoOutward Bound Author:Robert A. Heinlein