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‘Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar’

dude i think this my my favourite author now?!!

incredible

We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.

There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves.

‘a process cannot be understood by stopping it. understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.’

hawats eyes were two pools of altertness in a dark and deeply seamed face

‘she saw and yet did not see the evenings banked colours across meadow and river. she heard and yet did not hear the reverend mothers question’

‘thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind’

the human requires a background grid through which to see his universe / focused consciousness by choice, this forms your grid

animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that it’s victoms may become extinct - to be conscious by choice

He stopped embroidering that fantasy long ago.

We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.

The capacity to suffer. Elwood—all the Nickel boys-existed in the capacity. Breathed in it, ate in it, dreamed in it. That was their lives now. Otherwise they would have per-ished. But to love those who would have destroyed them? To make that leap? We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.

‘the pop of the white balls like the ragged heartbeat of an adolescent afternoon.’

‘that’s when he woke to the world’

‘The tiny details were a wonder: how the young men's ties remained straight black arrows in the whirl of violence, how the curves of the young women's perfect hairdos floated against the squares of their protest signs. Glamorous somehow, even when the blood flowed down their faces.’

‘every scratch and pop it gathered over the months was a mark of his enlightenment, tracking each time he entered into a new understanding of the referents words. the crackle of truth.

‘All human beings are lost to some degree. Life is disorder and confusing for absolutely everyone.’

‘cult-ception’

‘about a dozen proverbial red flags erect in my frontal cortex’

FIND YOUR VOICE!!

‘shit, is this what conversion feels like?’

‘when you’re experimenting with faith and belief, there has to be room to ask questions, express your misgivings and seek outside information, both early on and deep in your membership’

but there is always a story,
as soon as you get your language back, you can tell it mill

‘language is the beginning and end of everything.’

"a good coach is one who does not guide, but shines light on a person's deepest desires and blocks." Not a guide, not a prophet, not a guru telling you just what to say. But a candle in the dimly lit library of existence. The only dictionary you need is already open.

‘The deeper we go into darkness, the higher we go back into the light like a slingshot’

Thought-terminating clichés :
'Expressions like "it is what it is", "boys will be boys", "everything happens for a reason" → Semantic stop signs
- they alleviate cognitive dissonance
'suddenly hyper aware of the fact that life fundamentally bends towards entropy'
'it's work to think, especially with things you don't want to think about'

‘the words were smooth, as they always had been, but surrounded by armed guards, residents were presented with two options : die by poision or be shot trying to escape’

‘the death tape is a poem, curse, a mantra, a betrayal, a haunting. And proof of languages lethal power’

‘Creating special language to influence people's behavior and beliefs is so effective in part simply because speech is the first thing we're willing to change about ourselves ... and also the last thing we let go.’

‘with words, we breathe reality into being’

‘language does not simply describe or reflect who we are, it creates who we are’
^ ‘speech itself has the capacity to consummate actions, thus exhibiting a level of intrinsic power)