quantum physics connects somehow, I'm sure

This one I'm putting because it reflects upon the conversation about existance-of-good-and-bad and whether-those-are-inherent conversation we were having last night, and also because maybe magically one of the other few people who've made it all the way through Herbert's novels to Chapterhouse: Dune might read this and will be similarly thunderstruck, as I was, upon gaining a whole new understanding to Duncan's visions and the end of the novel:
“The real world is beyond our thoughts and ideas; we see it through the net of our desires, divided into pleasure and pain, right and wrong, inner and outer. To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net. It is not so hard to do so, for the net is full of holes." - Sri Nisargadatta

This one I found interesting because it seems a commentary on a concept that seems to crisscross across several cultures and philosophies in various fashions (re: Jesus' mustard seed parable, or my favorite remark of Kabir's, "The drop merges in the ocean, where do you search for the drop? The ocean merges in the drop, where do you search for the ocean? The end of the search is the realization that each is in the other"):

“The emperor of China asked a renowned Buddhist master if it would be possible to illustrate the nature of self in a visible way. In response, the master had a sixteen-sided room appointed with floor-to-ceiling mirrors that faced each other exactly. In the center he hung a candle aflame. When the emperor entered he could see the individual candle flame in thousands of forms, each of the mirrors extending it far into the distance. Then the master replaced the candle with a small crystal. The emperor could see the small crystal reflected again in every direction. When the master pointed closely at the crystal, the emperor could see the whole room of thousands of crystals reflected in each tiny facet of the crystal in the center. The master showed how the smallest particle contains the whole universe.”