About Me
What is it about the fire, so calm and peaceful, but inside all power and destruction... It's hiding something, just like people do... Sometimes, you have to get close to find out what's inside... Sometimes, you have to get burned to see the truth.....
A Master teaches essence. When the essence is perceived, he teaches what is necessary to expand the perception.We don't teach our students enough of the intellectual content of experiments-their novelty and their capacity for opening new fields....My own view is that you take these things personally. You do an experiment because your own philosophy makes you want to know the result. It's too hard, and life is too short, to spend your time doing something because someone else has said it's important. You must feel the thing yourself.The mind is such that it deals only with ideas. It is not possible for the mind to relate to anything other than ideas. Therefore, it is not correct to think that the mind actually can ponder reality. All that the mind can ponder is it ideas about reality. (Whether or not that is the way reality actually is, is a metaphysical issue). Therefore, whether or not something is true is not a matter of how closely it corresponds to the absolute truth, but of how consistent it is with our experience.Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hand, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case, If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure the picture is the only one which could explain his observations. He will never be able to compare his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility of the meaning of such a comparison.From an inner center the psyche seems to move outward, in the sense of an extraversion, into the physical world.Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting point and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
