Sirnesto

“Whenever you have a choice between being right or being kind, be kind. No exceptions. Don't confuse kindness with weakness." - Kevin Kelly

The world is burning, and there is no time to put down the water buckets. For just an hour, put down the water buckets anyway. Take your cue from the bluebirds, who have no faith in the future but who build the future nevertheless, leaf by leaf and straw by straw, shaping them into the roundness of the world.

Turn your face up to the sky. Listen.

“The human epistemologies, the six thousand spoken ways of knowing God, are like the six thousand ways a river can run down from high country to low, like the six thousand ways dawn might break over the Atacama, the Tanami, the Gobi, or the Sonoran … Each place is itself only, and nowhere repeated. Miss it and it's gone.” - Barry Lopez, from

"There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way." - Thich Nhat Hahn

“If you are looking for something in your house and you finally find it, when you're done with it, don't put it back where you found it. Put it back where you first looked for it.” - Kevin Kelly - My Addendum: this applies to notes in a PKM system too!

“Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even offend you.

See if you can find the truth in what they believe.” - Kevin Kelly

“… we can no longer afford to carry on in a prolonged era of polite reflection and ineffective resistance. An Era of Emergencies is bearing down on us." - Barry Lopez from embrace fearlessly the burning world

“Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense.” Marcus Aurelius