The Water in the Wood
That great vision is the end as seen by science: entropy, the cold, dark chaos that is the target of Time’s arrow.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
Everything passes, everyone around us dies: the people we love, the things we love, the world around us, our parents, our grandparents, our children, our spouse, our strength, our capacities, the redwoods of California, the skyline of New York—all of it is sliding away, all this perfection sinking into the earth. And we know this. We try to hold on
... See moreAlan Lew • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
If time is water then small actions reverberate - sometimes to distances I cannot see, maybe to a generation that I won’t meet.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water
Before the modern period, it was perhaps clearer that even an ordinary life can’t be fully conceived. Major events often bore neither a signature nor a sensible explanation. People met plague, famine, and war and didn’t have full information about what was going on. They might think that plague had something to do with rats or was related to an unf
... See moreJohn Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
If I sense the things of this earth not as a resources but as sources, if I feel them as wellsprings bubbling out of the unknown depths, well, this is not to deny that many of those springs seem to be drying up. This is a horrific circumstance that we’ve gotten ourselves into. But the way beyond this mess has to involve, first, a reconceiving and a... See more