That’s the job of consciousness, to turn Now into Always, to mistake what is for what was meant to be.

Our home has been broken into. Our lives are being endangered. The law allows for all necessary force against unlawful and imminent harm.

trees and humans, at war over the land and water and atmosphere. And she can hear, louder than the quaking leaves, which side will lose by winning.

They’ll do what the genes of their ancestors shaped them to do, what all their forebears have ever done themselves. They’ll speculate on what it takes to live and put those speculations to the test. Then they’ll say what life wants from people, and how it might use them.

The signals say: A good answer is worth reinventing from scratch, again and again. They say: The air is a mix we must keep making. They say: There’s as much belowground as above. They tell her: Do not hope or despair or predict or be caught surprised. Never capitulate, but divide, multiply, transform, conjoin, do, and endure as you have all the lon

Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe in the future he shall be.

Enlightenment is a shared enterprise.

The Ape Inside Us

Mastery has a Midas problem. Everything’s dying a gold-plated death.