“Once the distance between a text message and 'Send' grows from minutes to months, it hardly gets reversed.”
“Reality is one immense system of thought, one vast cosmic calculation, proceeding via all of the monads of which it is made, of which each of us is one.”
Source: Do the Math: Why Math Is Nothing Like How You Imagine
“Keep surviving”
“If you are going to judge, judge yourself first. That way, you can see better to judge others, and prevent shame upon thyself.”
“The only ‘truth’ that we can bring to bear in the pursuit of our greed is the truth of its absence in the pursuit.”
“The problem with people today is that they started enjoying living a lie and they don't want to hear about any truths. They love their lie.”
Source: Scientism Exposed: Hiding the True Creator of Creation
“I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.
When the world in its entirety,
and all that you hold sacred advise you
against it: love me still more.
When rage fills you and has no name: love me.
When each step from your door to our job tires you--
love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me.
Love me when you're bored--
when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last,
or more pathetic, love me as you always have:
not as admirer or judge, but with
the compassion you save for yourself
in your solitude.
Love me as you relish your loneliness,
the anticipation of your death,
mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends.
Love me as your most treasured childhood memory--
and if there is none to recall--
imagine one, place me there with you.
Love me withered as you loved me new.
Love me as if I were forever--
and I, will make the impossible
a simple act,
by loving you, loving you as I do”
Source: I Ask the Impossible
“Pursuing a thought experiment—even one that leads nowhere—can lead to breakthroughs. Fantasies, as Walter Isaacson writes, can be “paths to reality.”
Source: Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
“THERE’S A DIFFERENCE, as Morpheus said, between knowing the path and walking the path. Once you’ve stress-tested your ideas by trying to prove yourself wrong, it’s now time to collide those ideas with reality in tests and experiments.”
Source: Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
“The eerie, still, darkness was flickered and slivered by small receding flames, and was wrapped in the brown smell of burned beans and tobacco smoke and human sweat, and Kit had the sense that he was somehow simply a spectator to another side of reality – observing, listening.”
Source: Blinding the Moon