Thesis and antithesis are identical in nature, but different in degree"; "opposites are the same, differing only in degree"; "the pairs of opposites may be reconciled"; "extremes meet"; "everything is and isn't, at the same time"; "all truths are but half-truths"; "every truth is half-false"; "there are two sides to everything," etc., etc., etc.
6 The Principle of Cause and Effect
"Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law."—The Kybalion.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
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Reading List
- Alain de Botton: The Consolations of Philosophy
- Alec Wilkinson: The Happiest Man in the World
- Bhagavad Gita As It Is
- Daniel C Dennett: Breaking the Spell
- Daniel C Dennett: Consciousness Explained
- Daniel C Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Daniel C Dennett: Freedom Evolves
- David Weeks: Eccentrics
- Edward O. Wilson: On Human Nature
- Friedrich Schiller: Essays (The German Library)
- G. I. Gurdijieff: Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am"
- Hil Washburn, ed: The Many Faces of Wisdom
- John Kekes: The Art of Life
- John Strohmeier: Divine Harmony (Pythagoras)
- Matthew Stewart: The Truth about Everything
- Michel Foucault: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
- Michel Foucault: The Hermeneutics of the Subject
- Michel Waldberg: Gurdjieff: An Approach to His Ideas
- Osho: The Book of Understanding
- Osho: The Book of Wisdom
- P. D. Ouspensky: In Search of the Miraculous
- P. D. Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
- Paul C. Vitz: Faith of the Fatherless
- Pierre Hadot: What Is Ancient Philosophy (tr: Michael Chase)
- Robert Wright: Nonzero: the Logic of Human Destiny
- Robert Wright: The Evolution of God
- Robert Wright: The Moral Animal
- Seneca: Dialogues and Essays
- Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
- The Upanishads
- Xenophon: A History of My Time

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