Tim Siwula

“and still he’d see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void. .”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“I am reminded of the apocryphal conversation between Confucius and Lao-tzu, when the former had been prating of universal love without the element of self. “What stuff!” cried Lao-tzu. “Does not universal love contradict itself? Is not your elimination of self a positive manifestation of self? Sir, if you would cause the world not to lose its source of nourishment: there is the universe, its regularity is unceasing; there are the sun and moon, their brightness is unceasing; there are the stars, their groupings never change; there are the birds and beasts, they flock together without varying; there are trees and shrubs, they grow upward without exception. Like these, accord with the Tao—with the way of”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are

“If the master is not present in the house, all kinds of shady characters will take up residence there.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“We are really stuck with ourselves, and our attempts to reject or to accept are equally fruitless, for they fail to reach that inaccessible center of our selfhood which is trying to do the accepting or the rejecting.”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are