PROYECT CAIN
Death has a beauty to it. We don’t see it because we don’t want to. And that makes sense. Why would we want to focus on something that takes us away from everything we know? How do we even begin to understand that there’s more than what we see?”
TJ Klune • Under the Whispering Door
The essence of chaos is self-organizing. It’s what a river current does when it eddies around a boulder and then reforms; it’s what a flock of birds does when it takes off from a tree and then glides into formation; it’s what a weather system does when it collides into a different system, merges, and then keeps moving; the same with sand dunes,
... See moreBruce Feiler • Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
chaos as a catalyst that allows us to fall apart so that we can come back together at a higher level.
Phyllis Kirk JD • Quantum Lite Simplified
Obsession cannot be predicted or learned, and you cannot just want what you want; it strikes out of nowhere (much like sexual fetishes, also often acquired in childhood for mysterious exogenous reasons).
Speedrunning Is Not Such A Waste Of Talent
Perhaps you’ve known that person who devours beauty as if it belongs to them. It is a possessive wonder. It eats not to delight but to collect, trade, and boast. It consumes beauty to grow in ego, not in love. It climbs mountains to gain ownership, not to gain freedom.