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„As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming, instead of being. Beyond time, we’re all one.“
„The only true law is that which leads to freedom,” Jonathan said. “There is no other.“
„Everything in this book may be wrong.“
„We’re all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.“
„He wanted so much to ask, and he dared so little to know.“
„Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise.“
„Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to Love.“
„26. And [the Messiah] said unto them, “If a man told God that he wanted most of all to help the suffering world, no matter the price to himself, and God answered and told him what he must do, should the man do as he is told?”27. “Of course, Master!” cried the many. “It should be pleasure for him to suffer the tortures of hell itself, should God ask it!”28. “No matter what those tortures, no matter how difficult the task?”29. “Honor to be hanged, glory to be nailed to a tree and burned, if so be that God has asked,” said they.30. “And what would you do,” the Master said unto the multitude, “if God spoke directly to your face and said, ‘I COMMAND THAT YOU BE HAPPY IN THE WORLD, AS LONG AS YOU LIVE.’ What would you do then?”31. And the multitude was silent, not a voice, not a sound was heard upon the hillsides, across the valleys where they stood.“
„But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.“
„No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.“
„You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.“
„Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.“
„What I have just heard is pure… listen!… radiance, that you took from cloud-linings and sunrises and distilled into light that I can hear! Do you know how good, how lovely that is, what you can make the piano do?“
„The music broke from the piano like clear cold water from a prophet-touched rock, pouring and splashing around us while her fingers leaped and spread, curled and stiffened and melted and flickered in magic pass and streaked lightning above the keyboard. Never before had she played for me… because we were lovers now, was she free to play…?“
„The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.“
„Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.“
„Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect.Then be sure of one thing:The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.“
„Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.“
„If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it.“
„Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?“
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