Many of our everyday needs for deceleration are so selective that they contain their own negation: we wish, for instance, that we would finally have time for ourselves, for family, for hobbies, etc., and precisely in order to achieve this
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“The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.”
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“It’s about what people think is. It’s all imaginary anyway. That’s why it’s important. People only fight over imaginary things.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness”
― Contact
― Contact
“I have only one regret,” he had said in his gravelly voice. “My daughter married a Bulgarian.”
― Contact
― Contact
“So, I think the bureaucratic religions try to institutionalize your perception of the numinous instead of providing the means so you can perceive the numinous directly—like looking through a six-inch telescope. If sensing the numinous is at the heart of religion, who’s more religious would you say—the people who follow the bureaucratic religions or the people who teach themselves science?”
― Contact
― Contact
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