“My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.” IfsReasonBigsAbilityTechnologyTakenBecomingLosingFunctionDependentIncidents Author:Bruce Boxleitner
“In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.” ThinkingShouldMindIdeasEvilRoomsFiveBecomingQuietEatingFunctionDrinkingVariousSettingSettingsDesirableEating And DrinkingQuiet Room Author:Dogen
“[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular revolution, then constructing a "Red bureaucracy" that would be one of the worst tyrannies in history, while others would recognize that power lies elsewhere and would serve as its apologists, becoming mystifies, "disablers," and managers while demanding the right to function in "technocratic isolation," in World Bank lingo.” WorldStatesWould BeLyingWorstRevolutionBecomingExpectationsGainsRedFunctionIncludingTyrannyManagersIsolationElsewherePredictionsBureaucracyWorld Bank Author:Noam Chomsky
“People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some way or other. If they don't have the options of participation in labor unions, political organizations that actually function, they'll find other ways. Religious fundamentalism is a classic example.” PeopleIfsWayPoliticalReligiousExampleBecomingLaborOrganizationFunctionUnionsClassicFundamentalismParticipationIdentifyingReligious FundamentalismLabor Union Author:Noam Chomsky
“People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.” PeopleBecomingMassFunctionDecadesTubesObscenitySqueezing Book:Cloud Atlas: A Novel Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character directly. It does not say what to do and what not to do. It never gives you any commandments. It simply gives you a technique for becoming more aware, for being more alert, watchful, witnessing.” GivingDoeCharacterConsciousnessMeditationBecomingNeededConscienceDignityFunctionTechniqueCommandmentsBecoming More Author:Rajneesh
“Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.” MenWorldLongSoulSeemsMightFallSleepTearsBabyBecomingShapesFunctionMarkIntelligentFingersCloudsHeavyTinyBreathingIrrationalAccustomedLimbsBabeIntelligent Man Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.” PeopleThinkingWritingHumansIdeasShowsDifficultHuman BeingsConditionsBecomingInvolvedFunctionRedemptionCharmHuman ConditionBecoming Better Author:George Dzundza