#gnosis

Ah, my young lad, powerful lord of awareness, you will not be freed merely by my explaining and your hearing such things. Examine and analyze the fundamental nature (ngang-tsul [ངང་ ཙུལ་]) of what I have set forth, so that direct experience is elicited from the depths of your being, and stabilize your ongoing understanding and awareness. ↗

— Dudjom Lingpa

#gnosis #hungchenkara #experience

It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work. ↗

— Lon Milo DuQuette

#magick #perfectionism #practice #procrastination #procrastination

... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori. ↗

— Jerome Groopman

#prognosis #death

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#bad #bin #death #good #good thing

These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#diagnosis #possibility #worlds #change