#metaphysics

Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#zen #metaphysics

The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation. ↗

— Osman Bakar

#islam #metaphysics #philosophy #intelligence

Attitude is a state of mind that results in an action taken or an emotion displayed. Attitude, in the end, is a motivator or that which generates or reflects motives. ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#made-in-the-image-of-god #metaphysics #nature-of-god #nature-of-man #reid-ashbaucher

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine. ↗

— Thomas Traherne

#love

God structures his authority based on how he operates internally—that is, how each member of the trinity sees and interacts with each other. God never asks us to function in our obedience outside his personal examples. ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#nature-of-god #theology #change

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality ↗

— Aberjhani

#metaphysics #passion #sexuality #spirituality #life

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. ↗

— John Ray

#arithmetic #metaphysics

الترويض و التحكم كمثل تجربة عبور الطريق، يجب عليك المشي قليلاً لمنطقة الاختناق حتى تستطيع العبور سريعاً و سالماً؛ فالاختناق يولّد التباطؤ، و التباطؤ يولّد رؤية أوضح و حلول أكثر، و اختيارات أدق و أبرح.. ↗

— أنور هاني

#metaphysics #parapsychology #thriller #أبواب #inspirational

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church. ↗

— Della Reese

#i #metaphysics #pastor #teach

There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet. ↗

— Koren Zailckas

#hippie #hippies #metaphysics #new-age #yoga