Roberto Paredes

“Man as an organism is to the world outside like a whirlpool is to a river: man and world are a single natural process, but we are behaving as if we were invaders and plunderers in a foreign territory. For when the individual is defined and felt as the separate personality or ego, he remains unaware that his actual body is a dancing pattern of energy that simply does not happen by itself. It happens only in concert with myriads of other patterns—called animals, plants, insects, bacteria, minerals, liquids, and gases. The definition of a person and the normal feeling of “I” do not effectively include these relationships. You say, “I came into this world.” You didn’t; you came out of it, as a branch from a tree.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, Does It Matter? Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Stands at the sea,
wonders at wondering: I
a universe of atoms
an atom in the universe”
― Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character

“What are the secret of success?
-one word answer :"rational”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger