Robert Lanza Quotes

I believe that the existence of the classical "path" can be pregnantly formulated as follows: The "path" comes into existence only when we observe it.

I have always had a predominantly visual approach to my environment.

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain's surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be. Man does not suddenly become aware or infused with wonder; it is something we are born with.

It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer's movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes.

Is the earth in our head? Or do we stand on the earth?

I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.

What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!

What we see, we see and seeing is changing

The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.

Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too hot a flame. Yes, sometimes it was hot in this world, too. Hot and cold, light and dark, terrible and beautiful, it was everything all at once. It wasn't true that you felt nothing in the land of Death. You felt and heard and smelled and saw, but your heart remained strangely calm, as if it were resting before the dance began again. Peace. Was that the word?

The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

The mind is smaller than the eye.