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. The Thinkers "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. "The power of Thought, the magic of Mind!" "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway to the human spirit." "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge." "A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." "I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance." "The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities." "Time is not a line but a series of now points." "Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life." "Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation..." "Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts-but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message. Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive. Myth tells you what the experience is." "Our resplendent world in its form and functioning is what enables us to have such a splendid sense of God. Any degradation of the earth in its primary functioning inevitably affects our sense of the divine, just as we lose the full range of our thinking when we lose our experience of the great birds in flight, our experience of the animal or vegetative world, our experience of the rivers and the sea, or our experience of atmospheric phenomena." . .
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