Realizing that the self is an illusion fosters respect for the selves of others.
The self may be a valuable concept.
But it sure gets in the way.
Getting lost in others is the way to find your self.
Understanding the soul as the body-in-motion doesn’t deny soul; it constitutes
it.
Matter (and materialism) isn’t opposed to spirit (and spirituality);
it’s the condition for it.
An authentic theist is a nontheist.
The weak build
walls.
Knowledge is the
obstacle to thinking.
Fearing strangers makes
fearless enemies.
Patriotism weakens love
of country.
I am most conscious when
engaged in the world.
Righteousness is contrary to an ethical life.
An ethical life contradicts morality.
The greatest warrior is
the one who never must war.
Fighting a war is
usually an admission of defeat.
Theism terminates
transcendence.
Want order? Appreciate chaos.
Ardent belief is the
loss of faith.
The best teacher remains
a student.
The ugly is the frame of
beauty.
To hold on to loved-ones,
we let them go.
Keeping others outside puts
us in prison.
Open boundaries make
better neighbors.
A disaster is never
unprecedented.
Exaggerate evil and you
reinforce it.
Exceptionalism makes
us less than ordinary.
Accepting limits is the
beginning of infinity.
Want beauty? Wallow in dirt.
When you think about
them, all truths are false.
To exist we need to
believe in others.
When we know everything,
we know nothing.
Common sense is mostly
nonsense.
All is fiction, even
nonfiction.
Authentic experts are
amateurs.
Myth is the path to
reality.
Most that matters is
invisible.
The real is the
relational.
Only God knows truth. The rest of us make it happen.
Expectation breeds
disappointment. Hope calls to action.
To affirm is to deny.
To posit we have to
negate.
The positive is found
only in the negative.
Thinking is putting out
majorana particles—where matter and anti-matter meet.
Happiness is the pause
in suffering.
Suffering is source of
solidarity.
The supernatural is
nothing around everything.
Empathy suffers.
Compassion acts.
When you say yes to
someone, you say no to something.
Belief makes gods human.
Thinking makes humans divine.
To know the gods, I must
deny them.
The future is now and
never then.
Theists are too serious
about their beliefs. Atheists are too believing in their seriousness.
When we vigorously
affirm the gods, we deny them.
The objective world is
mass illusion.
Only the imperfect can reach
for perfection.
Discontent is the secret
of contentment.
Starting at the end is
the beginning.
Reconstructing the past
is planning the future.
What we are getting at is always between
the lines.
Artists depict what
cannot be depicted.
The obvious is the
unknown.
All tall tales are
short.
Wholly out there is holy in here
When I am absorbed in
the present, I transcend it.
To become human, seek
the divine. To seek the divine, be human.
Only an empty vessel can
be full.
To never give up, give
up.
Slavery is the road to
freedom.
A liberated mind thinks
everything and knows nothing.
A horizontal mind hits walls. A vertical mind is infinite.
Every point is an entry to infinity.
Zero makes everything
count.
When I touch some body,
I feel my own.
Bodies in love have no
bounds.
Giving away my body is
the essence of love
You don’t need feet to
dance.
To enter another’s soul,
flow in her style.
Appreciating the canvas is painting with the artist.
Criticism is the height of praise.
You only respect those with whom you can disagree.
Odor is in the nose of
the smeller. Do I stink if there is no one there to smell.
The best of games keeps
changing the rules.
Without rules you don’t
need rulers.
To be thoughtful, give
away your thoughts. To be thoughtless, hold on to them.
To have love, give it
away. To have everything, give way to everything.
To create things is to
abandon them.
Only the random is certain.
Order is overrated.
The wager itself makes
the bet pay off.
There are no natures in
nature unless we put them there.
Never let a god get in
the way of the divine.
Playful gods are more
fun than a Mighty One.
Use rules to subvert
them.
A friend is always there
when she isn’t.
Keeping rules dulls the
game.
Only when I am right am
I wrong.
Uncertainty is the acme
of life.
The only absolute is contingency.
Relativity is just a new absolute. All absolutes are relative.
We are created in the
image of friends.
To discover reality,
imagine it!
The way to truth is
error.
Magic and mystery leave when we know it all.
A good friend is one I
don’t have to hang on to.
Playing the game is
winning enough.
A fence, like violence,
is sometimes necessary but always bad.
When passion leads,
bliss follows.
Accepting the finality
of death is the pinnacle of life.
Being careful reduces
care. Curiosity requires carelessness.
The Mind of God is a
tabula raza. So go write on it!
Can’t know beauty
without ugly. Can’t know evil without good. Can’t know light without dark. Can’t
no without yes.
To know is to mix a no
with a yes. Consciousness is nothing put to being.
The universe runs on
alternating current.
Consciousness is a
cookie-cutter. It cuts the world into bite sizes. In a cut something stays and
something goes.
A concept is a category cutting
the flow. It cannot be without the flow. It cannot be at all.
Mind is concept cutting.
Mind is image making. Mind is fictionalizing.
Not all valuable concepts are true. Indeed, none of them are. They
are products of imagination.
Mind is thingifying.
There is nothing to something and something to nothing.
If you know
consciousness, you’ve missed it.
When you solve the
mystery, the book ends.
If you have solved the
mystery, you have closed your mind.
Irony is the humor of
contradiction, the silliness of logic.
Physics, including neuroscience, is contemporary alchemy. If alchemy
turns gold into lead, so what?
A sincere leader is
a crazed animal. Keep your distance.
The one who shouts the
most has the smallest stick.
Beware the man who keeps his principles,
Clear immovable
principles make a serial killer.
Evangelists are
terrorists. They scare the hell into people.
If education isn’t fun,
it isn’t education.
Creation is just letting
nothing out to play.
We can make something out of nothing, that's creative art.
We can't make nothing out of something, only God does that.
Entropy and syntropy are always at play.
When we make too much of
things, we belittle everything.
Playing with ideas is
the ultimate sport. Taking them seriously kills the game.
Enjoy today. Its all
there is right now.
True believers are a danger to faith.
Keeping faith is letting go of beliefs.
Know your illusions and
you know most everything.
Share your illusions; they are probably better than mine.
Gravity is a force that
isn’t. It’s the fabric that brings us together.
Force is compulsive
motion. Energy is voluntary motion.
May the Force be not with you!
Every stance I take is a
step in an ultra marathon.
When I am running from
my self, it is sure to catch me.
When I run toward
nothing, I will never be caught.
If you hear gods’
voices, enjoy the trip. If you believe in them, please pass by.
They, who idolize their
prophets, make them lower than animals.
To root out an evil,
change the system. To change a system, change the rules. To change the rules, change
the paradigm. To change the paradigm, create a new one. To create a new one,
use imagination.
The problem is usually how we are identifying it.
Attacking it directly seldom solves a problem.
The problem isn’t what
we think it is until we think about it.
The last thing I need is another thing.
The last thing I need is another thing.
Infidels are those who
attack infidels.
Violence is often caused by pacifiers. War is usually waged by peace-makers.
He who humiliates another dehumanizes himself.
There is no such thing as universal love. Love is always specific and personal.
Solidarity comes from shared suffering.
Cruelty is a product of those who believe god is on their side.
Those who claim that the US is a Christian nation have a bad opinion of Christianity.
Authentically religious people resist religion.
All these sayings are meaningful unless you think about them.
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