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The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

Nikos Kazantzakis
(If anyone has a more exact source for this quotation, please email it to carl_at_youngbloods _dot_org)

Published Sunday, August 06, 2006 9:40 PM by CarlYoungblood

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	Lincoln Cannon said: Great quote . . . reminds me of some passages of scripture. August 7, 2006 6:41 PM
	rocket scientist said: This goes along with the fancy nowdays "law of attraction" which essentially states that our thoughts, supported by passion, could attract/create material objects and circumstances. Most popular theistic and non-theistic theories talk about this principle one way or another. Even on a quantum level, there is no difference between material and non-material - it is all energy and information arranged in different ways. So in that sense, we potentially can "create" things by sufficient desire. August 8, 2006 1:09 PM
	rocket scientist said: So if someone lost hair or even worse - a family member - and has sufficient desire to restore whatever was lost, this would come back? Or we sufficiently desire to live forever, we may actually achieve that? Sounds too cool to be true. Unfortunately, reality often proves this fancy idea wrong - there are laws of the universe that are beyond our control (perhaps, for now) no matter how much our desires are. September 5, 2006 9:57 PM