Ruth Nanda Anshen: Convergence 收斂

Ruth Nanda Anshen (1900 – 2003)

Certain mysteries are now known to us: the mystery, in part, of the universe and the mystery of the mind have been in a sense revealed out of the heart of darkness. Mind and matter, mind and brain, have converged; space, time, and motion are reconciled; man, consciousness, and the universe are reunited since the atom in a star is the same as the atom in man.

We are homeward bound because we have accepted our convergence with the Cosmos. We have reconciled observer and participant. For at last we know that time and space are modes by which we think, but not conditions in which we live and have our being. Religion and science meld; reason and feeling merge in mutual respect for each other, nourishing each other, deepening, quickening, and enriching our experiences of the life process. We have heeded the haunting voice in the Whirlwind.


[Source: Noam Chomsky - Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use,1985, p.xxii ]