“Each one of us is far greater, far more advanced, far more consciously aware, far more intelligent than we conceive of our Selves as being. Within each of us is a central low pressure place —a Quiet Center— in which we can learn to live eternally. Just outside of this quiet center is a cyclone, the rotating storm of your ego, competing with other egos in a furious high-velocity circular dance.
In the quiet center, we are untouched by the cyclone, but as we leave it, the roar of the rotating wind deafens as we join the frenzied dance of our ever more busy lives. Our centered thinking-feeling-being, our Satori, is in the quiet center, not outside in the busy world. Our pushed-pulled-driven states, our anti-Satori modes of functioning, our self-created hell, is outside the quiet center. When in the quiet center, we are off the wheel of Karma, outside the busy details and dramas of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe—the Creators of us. Here we find that we have created Them who are Us.”
~ John C. Lilly, The Quiet Center: Isolation and Spirit (2003)
In the quiet center, we are untouched by the cyclone, but as we leave it, the roar of the rotating wind deafens as we join the frenzied dance of our ever more busy lives. Our centered thinking-feeling-being, our Satori, is in the quiet center, not outside in the busy world. Our pushed-pulled-driven states, our anti-Satori modes of functioning, our self-created hell, is outside the quiet center. When in the quiet center, we are off the wheel of Karma, outside the busy details and dramas of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe—the Creators of us. Here we find that we have created Them who are Us.”
~ John C. Lilly, The Quiet Center: Isolation and Spirit (2003)
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