Arthur J. Deikman quotes

Arthur J. Deikman quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on the capacity of the individual to set aside considerations of self, thereby gaining access to connection.”
-- Arthur J. Deikman

#Spiritual Quotes #Reality Quotes #Self Quotes
“On either side in Time, there's nothing similar to Now, only memories or imaginings . The place you were ten seconds ago has vanished, and what is the place ten seconds ahead? There is nothing there. It's very odd.”
-- Arthur J. Deikman

#Time Quotes #Memories Quotes #Sides Quotes
“Awareness is something apart from, and different from, all that of which we are aware: thoughts, emotions, images, sensations, desires and memory. Awareness is the ground in which the mind's contents manifest themselves; they appear in it and disappear once again.”
-- Arthur J. Deikman

#Memories Quotes #Mind Quotes #Desire Quotes
“It just isn't the way you've been told. Let me give you an example: Time makes no sense. It really doesn't apply to me; it doesn't fit. My hair gets thin and I can't stay up all night the way I used to. But I don't change...”
-- Arthur J. Deikman

#Night Quotes #Hair Quotes #Giving Quotes
“So to keep a fantasy, do not peer too closely at the world; fuzzy vision suits you best. Your creative power, turned away, is aimed inside to juggle fantasies, to solve the problems of a child's intrigue.”
-- Arthur J. Deikman

#Children Quotes #Creative Quotes #Vision Quotes
“Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.”
-- Arthur J. Deikman

#Fear Quotes #Children Quotes #Dark Quotes
“Inside you're like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it.”
-- Arthur J. Deikman

#Mirrors Quotes #Kind Quotes #Reflecting Quotes
“The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.”
-- Arthur J. Deikman

#Past Quotes #Iron Quotes #World Quotes

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