Religion is the organized attempt to understand spiritual experience, to interpret it with words and concepts, and to use this interpretation as the source of moral guidelines for the religious...

In the words of a Zen poem, At dusk the cock announces dawn; At midnight, the bright sun.

I never read. It prevents me from thinking. {Paul Dirac}

Mere curiosity has become profound scientific research

… all living systems are complex - i.e., highly nonlinear - networks …

Since human needs are finite, but human greed is not, economic growth can usually be maintained through artificial creation of needs by means of advertising. The goods that are produced and sold in...

Intersections of lines, for example, remain intersections, and the hole in a torus {doughnut} cannot be transformed away. Thus a doughnut may be transformed topologically into a coffee cup {the hole...

The parallels to modern physics {with mysticism} appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching, or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments of Heraclitus, in the Sufism of Ibn...

taught us to be aware of ourselves as isolated egos existing inside our bodies; it has led us to set a higher value on mental than manual work; it has enabled huge industries to sell products –...

the properties of a particle can only be understood in terms of its activity-of its interaction with the surrounding environment-and that the particle, therefore, cannot be seen as an isolated entity...

Deep ecology does not see the world as a collection of isolated objects but rather as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent. It recognizes the intrinsic value...

Throughout the living world, we find living systems nesting within other living systems.

The principles of classical management theory have become so deeply ingrained in the ways managers think about organizations that for most of them the design of formal structures, linked by clear...

… human needs are finite, but human greed is not …

The natural world, on the other hand, is one of infinite varieties and complexities, a multidimensional world which contains no straight lines or completely regular shapes, where things do not happen...

He had a deep respect for life, a special compassion for animals, and great awe and reverence for nature's complexity and abundance. While a brilliant inventor and designer himself, he always thought...

This segregation is confirmed by the common stereotypes of these two disciplines and their representatives. While scientists are perceived as absentminded, casually dressed individuals who live in a...

The double role of living systems as parts and wholes requires the interplay of two opposite tendencies: an integrative tendency to function as part of a larger whole, and a self-assertive, or...