“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”
“Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening”
Spacetime Tsunami http://www.deoxy.org/t_sunami.htm, Interview with Carla Sinclair, bOING bOING #10.
Context: I think that people don't understand. As the Firesign Theater used to say, 'Everything you know is wrong.' But that is a very liberating understanding, because if everything you know is wrong, then all the problems you thought were insoluble can be framed differently. And there's a way to take the world apart and put it back unrecognizably. We don't really understand what consciousness is at the really deep levels. With some of the tryptamine hallucinogens, you see into possibilities where questions like, 'are you alive?' 'are you dead?' 'are you you?' seem to have been transcended. I think people have a very narrow conception of what is possible with reality, that we're surrounded by the howling abyss of the unknowable and nobody knows what's out there.
“If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”
“The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer”
“There is a crack, a crack, in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”
Source: Píseň Anthem
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”
“Worrying is like praying for something you don't want.”
Source: Biography
“My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.”
“To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.”
Source: A History of My Brief Body
Source: Anonymous reader point out that quote appears on internet from 2015. Rumi, having died in the 1200s, when the first mention of this quote was around 2015.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37195094
“I am the villain in my own life.”
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37195094
