…the work of the devil. So out of the mysticism of the Flemish Mystics came what we later call the philosophy of nature, Goethe and so on, because the mystics had an empirical approach and were not bookworms. That's why I emphasize the danger of the…

…of death and with a highly intelligent form of dying. There is I remember, a story which is supposed to have been told of Goethe that when he was dying somebody called, wanted to see him but the maid answering the door said: but the master is busy…

…on the present, you can't do it with an objective because you're off it. And so in action, and you try to do what Goethe called self remembering and you always got your mind on the present and you're fully aware of what you're doing all the time see,…

…reduce our lives and the world merely to the status of signs. And it's obviously in some different sense than that that Goethe wrote his famous lines at the end of Faust: Alles vergehentliche ist nur ein leichnis. Forgive my pronunciation of German: all…

…say: so what, where are you going? They are regarded as being in a state of fulfillment at every moment, and it is as Goethe said, the highest to which man can attain is wonder. And if these prime phenomena of life make us wonder, that is the limit.…

…words they have meaning. Now people get all fouled up because they want life to have meaning as if it were words. You know Goethe was hung up on this all that is mortal is but a symbol of what see, confusing reality with words. What does this mean?…

…but achieved its maximum force in the early 15th century and eventually became the philosophy of nature as exemplified, say by Goethe. But there started out in Germany a movement that included people like Eckhart, Tauler, Reisbruch, the brothers of the free…

…work to change things are just doing their stuff at their level and they have to be included in this thing, in this totality. Goethe once said: we work with nature even when we work against her. So you have to have the most inclusive view possible in…

…of death and with a highly intelligent form of dying. There is I remember, a story which is supposed to have been told of Goethe that when he was dying, somebody called, wanted to see him but the maid answering the door said: but the master is busy…

…wrong of me to forge a document and pretend that it was written by some very venerable person, say by Dr Suzuki or by Goethe. But centuries ago both in the west and in the east it was considered quite immoral to publish any book of wisdom under your…

…reduce our lives and the world merely to the status of signs. And it's obviously in some different sense than that that Goethe wrote his famous lines at the end of Faust: Alles vergängliche ist nur ein gleichnis. Forgive my pronunciation of German: all…