Jenny

“To be human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Many scientific concepts—from time to chemical bonds to genes to species—lack stable definitions but remain helpful categories to think with. From one perspective, “individual” is no different: just another category to guide human thought and behavior. Nonetheless, so much of daily life and experience—not to mention our philosophical, political, and economic systems—depends on individuals that it can be hard to stand by and watch the concept dissolve. Where does this leave “us”? What about “them”? “Me”? “Mine”? “Everyone”? “Anyone”? My response to the discussions at the conference was not just intellectual”
― Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

“Humanity knows nothing at all. There is no intrinsic value in anything, and every action is a futile, meaningless effort.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“When the student is ready, the old Zen saying goes, the teacher appears.”
― Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius