I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.
Fred Alan WolfThere is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.
Fred Alan WolfThat's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.
Fred Alan WolfIt came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and when I started reading about outstanding yogis and people of exceeding spiritual power such as Ramana Maharshi, or Yogananda, they all had the ability to do what we would call - I don't know what you would even call it - psychic phenomenon, magic, transform objects, be able to perceive the future, the past and the present simultaneously.
Fred Alan WolfMedicine could have pretty far-reaching effects once we begin to look at the kinds of things that people can do to induce transformation in their thinking, their sensing, their intuiting and their feelings - and whether there's some power there that can be unleashed that would cause blockages that were primarily put in place through thought to be let go of.
Fred Alan WolfIllness is something out of balance, rather than something within balance. It's been something that is created and it's been created for a purpose and a reason, and that purpose or reason may not be obvious to the person that has the disease. Nevertheless, there is something going on and it's not always easy to find that out.
Fred Alan Wolf