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The point is this: we all must give a fuck about something, in order to value something. And to value something, we must reject what is not that something. To value X, we must reject non-X.
“Seeing the end of your life is the birth of your ability to love being alive. It is the cradle of your love of life.”
― Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
― Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
“Dying wise: That's that antidote. Dying wise is the rumor around which all the attempts to control and manage and detoxify and assuage and domesticate and diminish dying swirl in our corner of the world. Dying wise is a thought unthought-a rumor-in a culture that does not believe in dying, and it will take about as much courage and wisdom as you can manage to do it. Dying wise is a life's work. Dying wise is the Rhythm, the Story, around which human life must swirl.”
― Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
― Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
“What if those people could stand on the shore watching their wake wash a bit of the shore away? And what if each of us could stay put long enough to see the rippling trail of everything we did rolling out behind us? What if we stopped long enough to see the long train of unintended consequence fan out from every innocently intended thing we did?
A taste for the consequence, for what endures: Maybe then there'd be a chance for things to be different.”
― Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
A taste for the consequence, for what endures: Maybe then there'd be a chance for things to be different.”
― Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
“We never know self-realization.
We are two abysses -- a well staring at the sky.”
― The Book of Disquiet
We are two abysses -- a well staring at the sky.”
― The Book of Disquiet
“Cost-effectiveness is the screw that turns the wheel of efficiency. But there is a considerable cost to pursuing cost-effectiveness. Here is the logarithm of progress: The more you pursue being saved from the drudgery of going through your days, the ordinariness of being around, the venality of physical limitation or vulnerability, the more is taken from the physical world to provide you that salvation and the more remote you will be from what grants you your security. That is an ecological and spiritual fact.”
― Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
― Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
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