Srinivasa Ramanujan. A true Kali devotee of Maths.
Rodney Collin. Great lover and scientist, in the Fourth Way tradition.
"But to avoid danger is so often to avoid opportunity, and he who successfully hides from the devil very often hides from God too."
Lewis Carroll. Mathematician, joker, great story teller.
"There's no sort of use in knocking, said the Footman, and that for two reasons. First, because I'm on the same side of the door as you are; secondly, because they're making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you."
Dear Walt Whitman. The Lover of Humanity and Mum Nature.
"To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls."
"I find letters from God dropt in the street—and every one is sign’d by God’s name,
And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe’er I go,
Others will punctually come forever and ever." - Song of Myself [compare to Borges' God in the library]
Will-I-Am Blake. Dark educator, critic of human narrowness, mind-blower, Painter and Poet.
"Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth."
Herman Hesse. Aspirational history of The Human.
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.” - Demian
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps."
פנחס שדה. משורר וסופר שהשפיע עמוקות על עיצוב נפשי כאדם חופשי, חוקר, מוקיר ומבקר.
כתבתי את הספר (החיים כמשל) בבדידות גדולה ומתוך דחף עצום. כתבתיו כאילו היה צוואה.
Robert Burton. Spiritual teacher of the Fourth Way. Taught me Myself.
Remember yourself always and everywhere
To be out of time you need to be in time
Frank Herbert. Social order genius, predicting accurately the human society well into the deep future.
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
Leonard Cohen - poet, singer, inspiriational, witness, delver of souls.
“Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in.”
“If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.”
Jorge Luis Borges - Time Lord, poet and storyteller
"Unlike Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not believe in an absolute time; he believed in an infinite series of times, a growing, dizzying web of divergent, convergent, and parallel times." - The Garden of Forking Paths
"I am looking for God." - "God, the librarian said, is in one of the letters on one of the pages of one of the four hundred thousand volumes in the Clementine [library]. My parents and my parents' parents searched for that letter;" - the library of Babel [compare to Whitman's Letters from God]
Apologies to the great many female humans who are not properly represented here, but whom still influenced me deeply, and I owe them a debt - to Myself Be True.
And the list of great women and men is long ...