82 Quotes by Rupert Sheldrake

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they’ve been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual...

The universe is not in a steady state; there’s an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don’t know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it...

The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there’s a kind of cumulative quality...

There’s a certain kind of scepticism that can’t bear uncertainty.

Strategic thinking requires the ability to contemplate possibilities that are not immediately present.

I think that the ‘laws of nature’ are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

I still say the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It’s a system of education entirely for the middle aged.