ruminating on being human
The reason you might be having trouble with your practice in the long run—if you were capable of building a practice in the short run—is nearly always because you are afraid. The fear, the resistance, is very insidious. It doesn’t leave a lot of fingerprints, but the person who manages to make a movie short that blows everyone away but can’t raise
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The teeming hordes of living things on Earth, not only in space but in time, are actually all one massive, single organism just as certainly as each one of us (in our own minds) seems to be a distinct human being throughout our limited lifetime... Each of us is, equally, an independent living human and also just one utterly minute, utterly brief... See more
Maria Popova • Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
Today, there is perhaps no animal we are more unmoored from than ourselves. ‘The world is now dominated by an animal that doesn’t think it’s an animal,’ writes the natural philosopher Melanie Challenger in How to Be Animal (2021) . ‘ And the future is being imagined by an animal that doesn’t want to be an animal.’
Erica Berry • ‘Playing animal’ reflects back our yearnings and repulsions | Aeon Essays
“Perhaps, when someone has experienced a day-to-day life that makes sense, they can never become accustomed to strangeness.”
— A quote from the book I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
“Every live thing is the history and future of all dead things. Every dead thing is the future of all live things.”
— A quote from It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken
“The human being is complex and I find the vile acts, contradictions, and sublimities characteristic of our condition astonishing. Our existence would be an exasperating shade of gray if we were all flawless.”
— A quote from the novel Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
“You must never forget the price humanity pays for its moments of glory, because humanity doesn't know when to stop.“
— A quote from the novel Orbital by Samantha Harvey
"And in time we come to see that not only are we on the sidelines of the universe but that it's a universe of sidelines, that there is no centre, just a giddy mass of waltzing things, and that perhaps the entirety of our understanding consists of an elaborate and ever-evolving knowledge of our own extraneousness, a bashing away of mankind's ego by
... See more— A quote from the novel Orbital by Samantha Harvey
“Isn't it strange, how everything we do in our capacity as humans only asserts us more as the animals we are... Were forever gazing at ourselves and trying to ascertain what makes us different.”
— A quote from the novel Orbital by Samantha Harvey