James Jeans Quotes

If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of materialism and naturalism in the world of the mind. With the assistance of many friends I have developed a strategy for doing this. ... We call our strategy the "wedge."

There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.

You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.

The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Reality is mind-made.

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

Mind is everything. There's nothing that it's not.

Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

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.

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality.

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.

That the world is, is the mystical.

Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind.

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?

The Soul is on a journey through cosmic time, and you can orchestrate your journey through cosmic time, when you have awakened to the bigger reality.

In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.