Potent Quotes Archive

The Approach to Spiritual Practice

We do not do our practices in order to come to realize God, but rather we accept the Unity of God first and then everything follows from that.

--Reshad Feild, The Last Barrier; A Journey Through the World of Sufi Teaching

Dreams and Visions

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

--Carl Jung

Permanent Music

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out at a window at a landscape which didn’t stop when one turned away.

--John Cage

Music Improvisation

I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.

--Miles Davis

The Flute

The flute is totally empty

It is the breath that flows through

...sings and dances...

To be empty is not emptiness

--Rumi

Einstein's Not-God

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own – a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.

--Albert Einstein

One Interpretation of the Meaning of the Cross

“Yes,” he said, “the cross is a good symbol to describe those two aspects of time. The vertical bar of the cross represents the eternal aspect of time, and the horizontal bar the aspect of passing time. Where the two bars cross, it is possible to see both times at once; the flashes of deep understanding that we have come from that point.”

--from The Invisible Way by Reshad Field