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The Breath Between Years
On hope, beginnings, and the quiet power of belief
We often rush through the holidays in a blur of obligations, traditions, and good intentions.
We count days instead of feeling them.
And yet, just before the New Year begins, there is a rare and fragile pause —
a hinge in time where the old year is fading and the new one has not yet arrived.
It is a moment I think of as the breath between years.
In tha Read more of this blog post »
We often rush through the holidays in a blur of obligations, traditions, and good intentions.
We count days instead of feeling them.
And yet, just before the New Year begins, there is a rare and fragile pause —
a hinge in time where the old year is fading and the new one has not yet arrived.
It is a moment I think of as the breath between years.
In tha Read more of this blog post »
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“I yield my fate to the high heavens;
not mine the choice of path, but his — who guides unseen.”
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not mine the choice of path, but his — who guides unseen.”
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“A mechanism that cannot dream—whether wrought of gears or circuits, whether named clockwork or artificial intelligence—is but the husk of thought, a shadow without breath.”
— from my upcoming book, on reason, imagination, and the living soul of intelligence”
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— from my upcoming book, on reason, imagination, and the living soul of intelligence”
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“I’ve long wondered whether ideas belong to us at all, or if we are merely the scribes through whom the cosmos records its thoughts.”
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“The mystery that defines my life is learning to listen when creation itself speaks — softly, but unmistakably.”
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“I yield my fate to the high heavens;
not mine the choice of path, but his — who guides unseen.”
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not mine the choice of path, but his — who guides unseen.”
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“I have always hoped that humanity might one day direct its collective wisdom toward something truly grand — something that would elevate our stature in the cosmos. For we are merely passengers on spaceship Earth, sailing through the unknown toward a destination we did not choose. And yet, human vanity so often prevents us from uniting, pushing us instead to fight like rival anthills — destroying what we could create together.”
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“Ah, the folly of humanity! Even as the chill of ruin creeps close enough to steal their breath, people scurry for crumbs of favor from those enthroned in velvet—clamoring, fawning, and contorting themselves for a fleeting gleam of distinction gilded in burnished gold and honeyed praise.”
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