Giannis Tsakiris

“The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern[.]”
― Alan W. Watts, The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“When the pancreas fails to produce insulin, there is no shame in taking synthetic insulin to compensate for its lost function. Many people do not feel the same way about regulating mood with antidepressants (for reasons that appear quite distinct from any concern about potential side effects). If this bias has diminished in recent years, it has been because of an increased appreciation of the brain as a physical organ.”
― Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

“Hierarchies are 'dissectible' into their constituent branches, on which the holons form the 'nodes'. The number of levels which a hierarchy comprises is called its 'depth', and the number of holons on any given level its 'span'.”
― Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine

“But by meditation I do not mean a practice or exercise undertaken as a preparation for something, as a means to some future end, or as a discipline in which one is concerned with progress. A better word may be "contemplation" or even "centering," for what I mean is a slowing down of time, of mental hurry, and an allowing of one's attention to rest in the present—so coming to the unseeking observation, not of what should be, but of what is.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness