“Thinking about seasteading requires us to free ourselves of these broad political categories we're stuck with on land. People can make whatever community system they want on a seastead. What emerges will totally defy the broad categories we debate about now.” PeopleThinkingPoliticalCommunityDebateStuck Author:Joe Quirk
“Americans are very mobile and move around and choose the communities they want. On the ocean people would be even more mobile and empowered to link up with people they enjoyed, and detach and move away from people they did not. Increasing choice is a way to foster fulfillment in people's lives. I choose my friends and I'd prefer to choose my neighbors too.” PeopleMovingChoicesCommunityOceanNeighborFulfillmentEmpowered Author:Joe Quirk
“If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for a better choice. Seasteads won't attract them without offering them better options.” PeopleChoicesPoorTechnologyPoor People Author:Joe Quirk
“Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.” Author:Joe Quirk
“Time is a very useful concept in terms of survival. It's extraordinary that we can delineate a day into segments so that we can actually look at those segments, examine them, and see what worked and what didn't' work. We get very attached to time because it's a power, this invention of time is very powerful, and we like power.” TermPowerfulSurvivalExtraordinaryInventionVery Powerful Author:Gangaji
“The word God, to me, is like the word enlightenment. It's become so corrupted by our ideas of what God is.” Enlightenment Author:Gangaji
“When you are free enough to stop searching for freedom, you recognize that freedom is always here, it's your nature as timeless presence. That doesn't mean the circumstances are always free, of course.” MeanEnoughCircumstancesTimeless Author:Gangaji
“I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.” MomentsOvercomingFear Of Death Author:Gangaji
“I don't mean to say that you shouldn't take care of your body, or want to keep it from dying. But it doesn't have the same hold as when you totally identify yourself as the body. To recognize the tenderness of mortality, the fragility of your life form and all life forms, including cosmic life forms, is to be humbled in a deep way that is actually enlivening.” MeanCareDyingTake CareMortalityCosmicTenderness Author:Gangaji