The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object.

Erwin Schrodinger

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The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.

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Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.

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Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

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The total number of minds in the universe is one.

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We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

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Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

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We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.

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There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.

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What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

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Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

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The present is the only thing that has no end.

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I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am.

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who-i-am knows

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

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I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.

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The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

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For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

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The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

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The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

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Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

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Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

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