The Tao of Physics

It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them; and that these primitive particles being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.

Absolute knowledge is thus an entirely nonintellectual experience of reality, an experience arising in a nonordinary state of consciousness which may be called a meditative or mystical state

From the unreal lead me to the real!

From darkness lead me to light!

From death lead me to immortality!

Brihad-aranyaka Upanishad

Yet is other than all things,

Whom all things do not know,

Whose body all things are,

Who controls all things from within—

Heraclitus believed in a world of perpetual change, of eternal “Becoming.” For him, all static Being was based on deception, and his universal principle was fire, a symbol for the continuous flow and change of all things. Heraclitus taught that all changes in the world arise from the dynamic and cyclic interplay of opposites and he saw any pair of opposites as a unity. This unity, which contains and transcends all opposing forces, he called the Logos