Gianne

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“as adults, she explained, our minds don’t simply take in the world as it is so much as they make educated guesses about it. Relying on these guesses, which are based on past experience, saves the mind time and energy, as when, say, it’s trying to figure out what that fractal pattern of green dots in its visual field might be. (The leaves on a tree, probably.) LSD appears to disable such conventionalized, shorthand modes of perception and, by doing so, restores a childlike immediacy, and sense of wonder, to our experience of reality, as if we were seeing everything for the first time. (Leaves!)”
― Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert