Kevinpelrine

“In contrast with her generation, which had spent most of its time online learning to code so that it could add crude butterfly animations to the backgrounds of its weblogs, the generation immediately following had spent most of its time online making incredibly bigoted jokes in order to laugh at the idiots who were stupid enough to think they meant it. Except after a while they did mean it, and then somehow at the end of it they were Nazis. Was this always how it happened?”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

“before we examine our masks and learn to take them off, we must first recognize that the version of ourselves we’ve been hiding from the world is somebody we can trust.”
― Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

“The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma Gate of repose and bliss, the practice/realization of total accumulated enlightenment.”
― John Daido Loori, The Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training

“you begin to realize that The Mountains and Rivers Sutra is not a sutra about mountains and rivers, but rather that the mountains and rivers are themselves the sutra.”
― John Daido Loori, The Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training