As the Ocean People began to carve up China, it eventually became clear to China’s rulers that the Chinese way of ordering the world culturally could not continue, and that if they wanted China as an entity to survive, the Chinese would
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“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous
― Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
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“A form of consciousness beyond the veils of discursive thought, a space forever present for those who seek it, not in some far-off wilderness, but in our inner most hearts. When that realization dawns in the depths of one's being, the world effortlessly transforms into that which was sought.”
― The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
― The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
“It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.”
― Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
― Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
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