“I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.” IfsThinkingBelieveLooksI BelieveFindingsDirectAimAriseContactContemplation Book:The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh Source: The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh
“When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.” IfsWorldFeelsEarthChoicesPassionSecurityDangerousSafeFindingsEmbraceAriseEnthusiasmDreadAvoidanceReadinessDangerous WorldSecurity Measures Author:Martha Beck
“No. I had successfully solved the difficulty of finding a description of the electron which was consistent with both relativity and quantum mechanics. Of course, when you solve one difficulty, other new difficulties arise. You then try to sove them. You can never solve all difficulties at once.” TryingCoursesFindingsDifficultySolveAriseConsistentDescriptionQuantumMechanicRelativityQuantum MechanicsElectrons Author:Paul Dirac
“Our own self-awareness arises not in the Cartesian cogito, but in our finding ourselves in relation to other beings in whom we both actively recognize and do not recognize our own subjectivity, in an inexhaustible dialectic.” SelfAwarenessFindingsRelationSelf AwarenessAriseSubjectivityDialectics Author:John Milbank