“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune I’ve had almost 70 conversations for...

“There is no way that anything is supposed to be. There is only the constant mutation of is.” -Stephen Nachmanovitch, The Art of Is Just...

“Isn't there something in living dangerously?” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World During the lockdown, I took an online class, organized by...

“Thus wu-wei as ‘not forcing’ is what we mean by going with the grand, rolling with the punch, swimming with the current, trimming sails...

“Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.”  ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma...

“The imagining attention prepares our attention for instantaneousness.” -Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space I often think of the...

“Artists in the far east have made a great deal of what they call “the controlled accident”; marvelous things which happen as surprises...

“It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.” -Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space At the end of April,...

“Once a system is well-defined, or “boxed”, it becomes vulnerable.” -Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid...

“Fields of play simply do not impose themselves on us. Therefore, all the limitations of finite play are self-limitations.” -James P....

“True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness...

“If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.” -Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Before...

“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are...

“The joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey.” ―...

“The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed...

“The reader must come armed, in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In...

“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love...

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.” ― Charles...

“When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it...

"Wanting to get out of the pain is the pain." -Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety It is a challenging...