“Had I known you, I would have possessed you, and had you known me, you would have possessed me. But then you and I would not be.”
― In the Presence of Absence
― In the Presence of Absence
“make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.”
― Jakob von Gunten
― Jakob von Gunten
“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life
“Yet it is beautiful to discover that there's another chapter to the story, where we discover deep unity beneath, and supporting, the diversity of appearance. All colors are one thing, seen in different states of motion. That is science's brilliantly poetic answer to Keats's complaint that science "unweaves a rainbow.”
― A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
― A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
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