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As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make- believe continues into adulthood.
from It’s Not Easy Being Green by Jim Henson
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that.
from The Truman Show
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
from Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
The word 'occult' comes from the Latin occultus, meaning 'hidden'. In modern times the word is used for those sciences and arts involved with looking into the secret world which is supposed to lie behind the world of our familiar...
Q. Define, then, the physical scientist. A. The physical scientist is he who observes and measures the appearances of the phenomenal world and from his data draws conclusions as to the nature of their causes. He deals, therefore, only with...
Source: The Science of the Initiates by Eugene Milne Cosgrove
There is another kind of knowledge. It is not one of physical facts, nor can it be quantified and measured. It is a knowledge of our inner world, not the outer one, a knowledge of what we used to call...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
‘But the world itself is only a speck of dust. And man is tiny — helpless!
Source: 1984 by George Orwell
The esoteric tradition is also intuitive, focusing on our subtle, inner worlds, rather than our obvious outer one. It believes in a living, organic, spiritual, even conscious universe, rather than a dead, mechanical, oblivious one. It is also concerned more...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
All THE upside-down, inside-out, other-way-round thinking of the secret societies, all that is bizarre and mind-bending in what follows stems from the belief that mind preceded matter. We have almost no evidence to go on when we decide what we...
Source: The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth
They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized.
Source: Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire by Manly P. Hall
But the actual tendency of the geocentric system was, for the medieval mind, precisely the opposite. For the centre of the world was not a position of honor; it was rather the place farthest removed from the Empyrean, the bottom...
Source: The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Underlying this Secret Doctrine was a profound philosophy of the creation or evolution of worlds and of man. The present humanity, in many quarters of the globe, has evolved on the intellectual plane so far that there now exist a...
Source: Mystic Masonry by Jirah Dewey Buck
What sets the mental-rational structure apart from the previous three structures is that it is the most separated from “Origin.” In it, human consciousness, which had previously felt a fundamental connection to the world around it, was now unattached and...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
But there is one new and encouraging element present in most of the recommendations of today's experts. They are recognizing the necessity of conceiving the world as one interdependent structure.
Source: The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall
World democracy was the secret dream of the great classical philosophers. ... Thousands of years before Columbus they were aware of the existence of our Western Hemisphere and selected it to be the site of the philosophic empire. ... The...
Source: The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall
I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be.
Source: The Truman Show
You start to see the world a little differently when you turn it upside down
This world keeps spinning and there's no time to waste - Well it all keeps spinning, spinning, round and round and upside down
Who's to say, what's impossible? Well they forgot, this world keeps spinning
Round and round the world we go - Back and forth in time - Always looking for the new sensation - Bigger and better every time
I want your world to turn, just for me - I want your fire to burn, just for me
All for freedom and for pleasure, nothing ever lasts forever - Everybody wants to rule the world
There's a world that was meant for our eyes to see
It's a small world after all
The world is spinning, turning day to night - And my thoughts are running at the speed of light
I try to stop the world from moving so fast - Try to get a grip on where I'm at - And simplify this dizzy life - And put my feet in the grass
World goes round, life goes on and on and on - You say it's over, but the world keeps turnin' 'round
And I can't get it out of my head - No, I can't get it out of my head - Now my old world is gone for dead, 'cause I can't get it out of my head
Sitting 'til the sun goes down - In dreams, the world keeps going 'round and 'round
It was always burning, since the world’s been turning
In the latest midnight hour, when the world has gone to sleep, you gotta get up
Lookin' in your eyes I see a paradise - This world that I've found is too good to be true
Nothin' comes from talkers but sound - We can talk all we want to, but the world still goes around and round
I wage my war, on the world inside - I take my gun to the enemy's side
Doesn't anybody ever know? That the world's a subway, subway
And the world keeps spinning 'round - But my world's upside down, and I wouldn't change a thing
So, 'round and around and around we go - Where the world's headed, nobody knows
We all make the world go 'round Together, all of us We all make the world go 'round And 'round and 'round
Your world just spins whilst mine stands still - Nothing's changed in your gravity grave
I wish the real world would just stop hasslin' me
I saw the world spin beneath you
That's the power - Makes the world go 'round
Is it love that makes your world go 'round and 'round?
We've got to find another way to make the world go 'round
The world's just spinning a little too fast - If things don't slow down soon, we might not last - So just for a moment, let's be still
'Cause I've been locked up way too long In this crazy world, how far is Heaven?
I could feel the whole world turn round underneath me
You're tellin' me the world does not even spin around? You're tryna say the car we're sittin' in don't belong to gravity?
There's a man on the moon and he says that he's not coming down - But he's thinking of you every time the world spins around
If this world is turning too fast for your head, just remember how bad times can roll instead - Guess I'll have to search the space in my mind, for that stillness in time.
Everybody, tell me have you heard? Pop goes the world
From the top of the world every which way is down
So I walk up on high, and I step to the edge - To see my world below
Worlds are turning, and we're just hanging on - Facing our fear and standing out there alone - A yearning, and it's real to me
And the eyes in his head see the world spinning round
Been dreaming of this since a child - I'm on top of the world
And the world will live as one
I saw the decade end, when it seemed the world could change at the blink of an eye
I hoped to find why the world wasn’t glowing, It’s darker as we end this ride
Yeah, the world would swing if I were king
I realized quickly when I knew I should, that the world was made up of this brotherhood of man
Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination - Take a look and you'll see into your imagination
How can we believe the world is round?
From a distance the world looks blue and green
Even cold hard facts have got a way of changing their stripes in the light of a new day - The world we hold so tight and true - Turn it on it's head
Whoever said illegal was the easy way out , couldn't understand the mechanics, and the workings of the underworld
Come crashing in, Into my little world
Now let your mind do the walking, and let my body do the talking - Let me show you the world in my eyes
I'll stop the world and melt with you
The world’s still spinning ’round we don’t know why
We'd better think about the games we play - The world went round, around and round
And the sun went down, as I crossed the hill - And the town lit up, the world got still
