Tim Siwula

“Inside its warship body, in narrow, unlit, unheated, hard-vacuum spaces, constructor drones struggled to install or complete sensors, displacers, field generators, shield disruptors, laserfields, plasma chambers, warhead magazines, maneuvering units, repair systems and the thousands of other major and minor components required to make a functional warship.”
― Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas

“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

“one of the hallmarks of mental health is the ability to hold conflicting feelings.”
― Jerry Colonna, Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up