When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
William JamesHow can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
William JamesYou may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
William JamesOur normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
William James