Boyan

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Boyan.

https://www.goodreads.com/neau

Notes on Being a Man
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Woody Allen
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
Woody Allen

Alan W. Watts
“It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting. But so we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are actually--if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning-- you're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you, I see not just what you define yourself as--Mr so-and- so, Ms so-and-so, Mrs so-and-so--I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I'm that, too. But we've learned to define ourselves as separate from it. ”
Alan Watts
tags: zen

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

Mark Twain
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
Mark Twain

Bruce Lee
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
Bruce Lee

49956 What.CD — 29 members — last activity Jan 13, 2019 10:21AM
Welcome to What.CD's Official Goodreads group! ...more
67886 /lit/ (2025 revival edition) — 1282 members — last activity Dec 11, 2025 11:15PM
No fun allowed. Reading top 100 books from the /lit/ chart.
501 The Brain and Mind — 4395 members — last activity Sep 25, 2025 01:42AM
This is a group for readers to recommend and discuss books related to real and/or artificial brains. Categories include but are not limited to: neuros ...more
1148223 Culture and Technology Book Club — 48 members — last activity Jun 02, 2022 10:47AM
a space for us to talk, share books and other related content between monthly meetings.
712597 Solarpunk — 509 members — last activity Sep 09, 2025 04:28PM
Science fiction doesn’t have to been depressing: Welcome to Solarpunk! Solarpunk is a new genre within science fiction that is a reaction against th ...more
More of Boyan’s groups…
year in books
K
K
1,585 books | 1,552 friends

Мирела ...
530 books | 76 friends

Romain
2,276 books | 152 friends

Sve
Sve
1,706 books | 738 friends

Milena
1,112 books | 100 friends

Sophie ...
59,257 books | 3,087 friends

v
v
2,706 books | 137 friends

Margherita
1,997 books | 3,851 friends

More friends…
Hypersphere by Anonymous
Shape Up!
240 books — 28 voters
Superintelligence by Nick BostromOur Final Invention by James Barrat
Elon Musk Book Recommendations
18 books — 34 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Boyan

Lists liked by Boyan