"The better educated know about more things they know little or nothing about."—General Theosophy

“The continuing mysteries of life are almost always more reliable and interesting companions than the most fulsomely footnoted finished factsheets.”—General Theosophy

"Read your own book . . . even if you haven't written it yet. . . ."—General Theosophy

"In the long run there is probably just a realization there wasn't one. . . .—General Theosophy

"Happiness is not what you think but what you don't think."—General Theosophy

"Impress yourself not by what you know, but by what you are Able to know."—General Theosophy

Os discípulos de Erígena

Erígena não deixou nenhuma escola e se ele teve algum seguidor imediato, nada se conhece dele ou deles.  “O século” diz Neander, “em que ele viveu não estava preparado para o seu sistema; mas o espírito especulativo que passou além do século 12 para o século 13 preparou o caminho para a adequação de uma influência que não foi possível ser realizada na sua primeira aparição.”  Nós não temos dados históricos…

"The word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, which is a translation of the Greek pneuma, meaning 'breath.'"—WAKING UP: A GUIDE TO SPIRITUALITY WITHOUT RELIGION (Sam Harris, Kindle Location 106 )

Glad sandwich bags.…

"The excessiveness which did not kill me may just be procrastinating."—General Theosophy

“Thoughts are Things.”

In the late 19th  century, a group of people in Britain began to deeply explore consciousness through meditation, theology, and philosophy. They called themselves the Theosophists. One of their visionaries was a woman by the name of Helena Blavatsky, who wrote the book “The Secret Doctrine.” It was deep and heavy for most people, but later writers were better able to connect the ideals of Theosophy with the rest of us. Some of these writers were Annie…

“Theosophical intuition may be developed by being quick with questions but slow to accept any answers but your own.”—General Theosophy

“Two is company; three is politics.”—General Theosophy

Astrophysicist can tell you all about this, but I wonder if you ever considered time and space as a nuisance? After all, space is a distance you must pass between getting from here to there, and time is just a hindrance from being complete and whole. The future is anticipation of something either good or bad and the past is something to continually process and…

“Truth is a book with nothing specific written in it; Theosophers are those who continue to turn the pages anyway.”—General Theosophy

“Be not so confident about Spiritual progress until you are at a loss for words.”—General Theosophy

Greetings and good wishes, Sergo.  I always enjoy your interesting posts.

In a private message to me you asked me something like "what aspect of theosophy [sic. Theosophy] interests you most?"  Previously, you had also mentioned that you were a Russian-English language translator.  The thought came to me, "Why not try to 'kill two birds with one stone' [a good-old folksy English idiom] and not only begin to answer [the shortest version would be 'Psychological…

“It is often easier to weather the storm than the storm warning.”—General Theosophy

“An accident is often just a lower state of mindfulness trying to wake up a higher one.”—General Theosophy