“Think about it,” the old man said. “Close your eyes again, and think it all through. A circle that has many centers but no circumference. Your brain is made to think about difficult things. To help you get to a point where you understand something that you didn’t understand at first. You can’t be lazy or neglectful. Right now is a critical time. Because this is the period when your brain and your heart form and solidify.”
― New Yorker Short Stories
― New Yorker Short Stories
“If you can look into the seeds of time
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me.”
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And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me.”
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“None of us are saints, but we can all try to be better. Each time you do something generous, you're shaping yourself into someone who's more likely to be generous next time, and that matters.”
― Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
― Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
“I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.”
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“This book is about entanglements. To be entangled is not simply to be intertwined with another, as in the joining of separate entities, but to lack an independent, self-contained existence. Existence is not an individual affair. Individuals do not preexist their interactions; rather, individuals emerge through and as pare of their entangled intra-relating . Which is not to say that emergence happens once and for all, as an event or as a process that takes place according to some external measure of space and of time, but rather that time and space, like matter and meaning, come into existence, are iteratively recon figured through each intra-action, there by making it impossible to differentiate in any absolute sense between creation and renewal, beginning and returning, continuity and discontinuity, here and there, past and future.”
― Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
― Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
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