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Concepts can be discussed forever without needing to put any skin in the game at all—but when this aliveness is cut, it bleeds.
Robert Saltzman
…each moment is sufficient unto itself.
Robert Saltzman
You are a child playing with clay complaining about the shapes that you yourself are fashioning out of it. It isn’t “freedom” that you lack. Rather, it’s the courage to take responsibility for just how free you really are.
Shiv Sengupta
It’s not as if you can get something from someone or give something to someone.
Kodo Sawaki
Remembering his life, he imagined it.
David Shields
Remembering his life, he imagined it.
David Shields
I can relate to:
“You mean there’s all this?!”
rather than:
“You mean this is all there is?”
The dark side of living cannot be avoided forever. For every freedom there is a proportionate responsibility that must be assumed. And those who chase the freedoms but shirk the accompanying responsibilities live in a state of perpetual escape.
Shiv Sengupta
No questions, no answers, just curiosity.
A map can never reflect or represent the territory because it, too, is part of the territory. There is only the territory.
Existence, being, presence – undoubtable yet ungraspable.
Even temporal, so called peak experiences pale and fall within the infinite experience of everything that is always happening.
You can’t have anything without everything else.
And the deepest truth is not to find an answer, but to live with the answer-less-ness.
Joan Tollifson
Self-study of any seriousness aspires to myth. Thus do we endlessly inscribe and magnify ourselves.
David Shields
It’s already happened, it’s already too late, life has already happened. This is it. So your opinion of whether it is good or bad or right or wrong is irrelevant.
James Low
Everything is a movement of the whole.
Joan Tollifson
...you don’t develop compassion by sending others love from the safety of your own comfort zone. That isn’t how it works. You do it by immersing yourself in their chaos. And if you are able to emerge from that chaos with even a shred of self-understanding, then that is your act of compassion.
Shiv Sengupta
It is easy to mistake for intelligence and insight just more and sophisticated language manipulation. This is particularly evident in the large language models (LLMs) of AI.
