“Love is the quality of attention we pay to things”
― Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems
― Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems
“Ultimately, saying that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.”
― Permanent Record
― Permanent Record
“To live in a world of abstractions—based on language, concepts, beliefs, patterns, labels—is to live in a dream world rather than reality.”
― No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism
― No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism
“Time is an illusion, a construct made out of human memory. There’s no such thing as the past, the present, or the future. It’s all happening now.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“There are so few things in our existence we can count on to give us the sense of permanence, of the ground beneath our feet. People fail us. Our bodies fail us. We fail ourselves. He's experienced all of that. But what do you cling to, moment to moment, if memories can simply change. What, then, is real? And if the answer is nothing, where does that leave us?”
― Recursion
― Recursion
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