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"Virginia's books are always ones that you want to read all over again once finished." — Jul 19, 2011 05:52PM
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"As day requires night and night requires day so meaning requires absurdity and absurdity requires meaning. Noon is a moment, midnight is a moment, morning comes from night, evening turns into night, but evening comes from the day and morning turns into day. So meaning is a moment and a transition from absurdity to absurdity, and absurdity only a moment and transition from meaning to meaning." — Jan 05, 2025 09:52AM
"As day requires night and night requires day so meaning requires absurdity and absurdity requires meaning. Noon is a moment, midnight is a moment, morning comes from night, evening turns into night, but evening comes from the day and morning turns into day. So meaning is a moment and a transition from absurdity to absurdity, and absurdity only a moment and transition from meaning to meaning." — Jan 05, 2025 09:52AM
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"Chipped away some more of this today. Very thought provoking. Was Dick in contact with some divine entity? Or was it caused by his stroke? Or maybe all the drugs he took? Either way, the book is like having coffee with a modern day philosopher." — Jul 18, 2013 01:57PM
"Chipped away some more of this today. Very thought provoking. Was Dick in contact with some divine entity? Or was it caused by his stroke? Or maybe all the drugs he took? Either way, the book is like having coffee with a modern day philosopher." — Jul 18, 2013 01:57PM
The great cusp—green equinox and turning, dreaming fishes to young ram, watersleep to firewaking, bears down on us.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Avendesora,” Moiraine murmured, resting her hand on a trefoil leaf in the stonework. Rand scanned the carving; that was the only leaf of its kind he could find. “The leaf of the Tree of Life is the key,” the Aes Sedai said, and the leaf came away in her hand.”
― The Eye of the World
― The Eye of the World
“Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. —WERNHER VON BRAUN”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
“Now all my teachers are dead except silence. —W.S. Merwin”
― Death: The End of Self-Improvement
― Death: The End of Self-Improvement
“Practice is not about overcoming human problems. It’s not about becoming serene and transcendent. It’s about embracing our lives as they really are, and understanding at every point how deep and profound and gorgeous everything is—even the suffering, even the difficulty. So we forgive ourselves for our limitations, and we forgive this world for its pain. We don’t say, “That’s not pain.” It is pain. You don’t say, “It’s not difficulty.” It is difficult. But when we embrace the difficulty… we see this is exactly the difficulty we need, and this difficulty is the most beautiful and poignant thing in this world. — Zoketsu Norman Fischer”
― Death: The End of Self-Improvement
― Death: The End of Self-Improvement
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