“All life is the fragmenting of one collective soul.”
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea
Variant: One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few. One moon shell is more impressive than three. There is only one moon in the sky.
Source: Gift from the Sea (1955), p. 114
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) American philosopher and systems scientist
Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Design of Inquiring Systems (1971), p. 10; cited in Daniel J. Power (2004) Decision Support Systems: Frequently Asked Questions, p. 23
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci (1895)
Context: Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects.
“Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
“The soul of all is only the soul of each one.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
El alma de todos sólo es el alma de cada uno.
Voces (1943)
“Kia is capable of occult power because it is a fragment of the great life force of the universe.”
Peter J. Carroll (1953) British occultist
Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987), p. 28
Context: Kia cannot be experienced directly because it is the basis of consciousness (or experience), and it has no fixed qualities which the mind can latch on to. Kia is the consciousness, it is the elusive "I" which confers self-awareness but does not seem to consist of anything itself. Kia can sometimes be felt as ecstasy or inspiration, but it is deeply buried in the dualistic mind. It is mostly trapped in the aimless wanderings of thought and in the identification with experience and in that cluster of opinions about ourselves called ego. Magic is concerned with giving the Kia more freedom and flexibility and with providing means by which it can manifest its occult power. Kia is capable of occult power because it is a fragment of the great life force of the universe.
“If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet