Existential thinkings
Then I said it.
“To take this in, you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols.”
I did not know what I meant by saying you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols. I just said it.
“Begin with the primal light discovered in 1964 by Penzias and Wilson. This light, this cosmic microwave background radiation, arrives here from all directions.... See more
“To take this in, you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols.”
I did not know what I meant by saying you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols. I just said it.
“Begin with the primal light discovered in 1964 by Penzias and Wilson. This light, this cosmic microwave background radiation, arrives here from all directions.... See more
"We are universe"
We are the hand drawing ourself, the universe writ large inside a tiny, fleshy, a one-in-eight-billion wandering, fire-wielding mostly hairless ape, who is but another mirror of the Animate Everything, becoming all the ways we can become unto which we may know ourself more; again; deeper.
Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means – The Marginalian
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Nietzsche burned early drafts. Michelangelo destroyed sketches. Leonardo left thousands of pages unfinished. The act of deletion is not a failure of recordkeeping. It is a reassertion of agency.
In design, we speak of subtraction as refinement. A sculptor chips away everything that is not the figure. A musician cuts a line that clutters the melody.... See more
In design, we speak of subtraction as refinement. A sculptor chips away everything that is not the figure. A musician cuts a line that clutters the melody.... See more
Joan Westenberg • I Deleted My Second Brain
aka what we refer to as ‘natural selection’, whereby reality is constantly deleting, revising, evloving, at the foaming edge of becomingness; no Hero’s journey of striving to Be The Best Self, just a love-driven exploration of what can be possible, to know ourself in every way, distilled by the pain and joy of existing; n’er static, (by definition it cannot be);
The Paradox of Connection
We often declare that everything is connected, but this very declaration keeps us conceptually apart. To be connected, we must first assume we are separate entities capable of disconnection. The ontological assumption underlying reconnection narratives is that disconnection is possible—that we can sever our ties to the... See more
We often declare that everything is connected, but this very declaration keeps us conceptually apart. To be connected, we must first assume we are separate entities capable of disconnection. The ontological assumption underlying reconnection narratives is that disconnection is possible—that we can sever our ties to the... See more
Disconnection: Why "Nature Connection" Keeps Us Stuck
“Anything you give your time to and polish with attention will become a lens on your search for meaning, will lavish you with metaphors that become backdoors into the locked room of your most urgent reckonings.”
Gleanings so far, from a life devoted to imagination
substack.com
Eriks reply to my sharing Bayo:
Thank you, so much, Jeremy Prentice for sharing this.
It’s always fascinating to learn other peoples perspectives, and stories, and reflect on the realities we all manifest/shape around our ‘selves’.
As you eloquently mentioned, we move within life like planets generating our own gravities, within which we attract and
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Peter Reason referencing Swimme and Berry