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“Every journey is a question of sorts, and the best journeys are the ones in which every question opens into deeper and more searching questions.”
— Pico Iyer, The Pilgrim’s Way on Waking Up
I am comfortable with doubt and am constitutionally resistant to moral certainty, herd mentality and dogma. I am disturbed on a fundamental level by the self-serving, toddler politics of some of my counterparts – I do not believe that silence is violence, complicity, or a lack of courage, but rather that silence is often the preferred option when... See more
Tom Davenport • Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #337- I’ve had several disagreements with friends about where you stand on things. Where do you…stand?
Part 1 of 2.
EDIT: Number 4 is incorrect, I chopped the bottom off by mistake! It should read:
4. Most people look unapproachable and cold until you talk to them and then they almost always are surprisingly warm and friendly.
I’ll post part 2 tonight…
instagram.com55 observations from taking a year off work is really really good
We think in questions. If knowledge is a complex web inside the mind, each node is a question, and each connecting line the information you’ve picked up on the journey from node to node. The pursuit of knowledge is the accumulation of questions. They shape our identity as much by being asked as by being answered.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity
The textbook definition of a question is a sentence used to seek information, but it feels borderline criminal to reduce something as foundational as a question to something transactional.
Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative
onbeing.orgPoem: Small Kindnesses (Published 2019)
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