Truly there is a wonderful, amazing God, and God's name is NATURE. Not a person, not an old man in the sky with a beard, not a judge, or an author of bronze-age books, but NATURE, the ALL-in-ALL, the Pan-theos.
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness."
"This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
no argument there sheeba, suppose a list of ruthless tyrants could be compiled. thank you.
basedball1951 2 months ago
'untimely death'?, is there a timely one?
basedball1951 6 months ago
@basedball1951 yes, Hitler's...
sheeba11 2 months ago
Truly there is a wonderful, amazing God, and God's name is NATURE. Not a person, not an old man in the sky with a beard, not a judge, or an author of bronze-age books, but NATURE, the ALL-in-ALL, the Pan-theos.
RadicalWhig 8 months ago
@RadicalWhig well said
PoFFizdaMan 1 month ago
awesome :)
rampriyadarshini 1 year ago
"We are star stuff -- which has taken its destiny into its own hands."
-- Carl Sagan
WorldPantheism 1 year ago 5
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness."
WorldPantheism 1 year ago 5
(cont)
"This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-- Albert Einstein
WorldPantheism 1 year ago 4
@WorldPantheism
Which is why Einstein was a vegetarian. I think Sagan was moving in that direction as well before his untimely death.
SaganAppreciationSoc 1 year ago