“Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.” IfsThinkingTryingBelieveHumansHateHurtHuman BeingsOur LivesSolutionsI HateChaosNeighborHatedLove LifeThyselfLove Thy Neighbor Author:Byron Katie
“In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.” MindHumansWellsChildrenHuman BeingsDoubtMaterialsAdultsBuiltPhilosophicalConstantChaosMythTalesLandscapeFairyLegendsConstructionFairy TaleShelterComponentsSiege Author:Yi-Fu Tuan
“I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.” ThinkingHumansCertainEvilHuman BeingsCommonGroupsMaterialsCommunicationChaosCensorshipTrustedPornographyCommon GoodSelectiveUncontrollable Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates, sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.” HumansArtShowsHuman BeingsGrowingArt IsMirrorsStructureChaosPatternsMatureConformityIcons Book:A Circle of Quiet Source: A Circle of Quiet
“Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.” HumansHuman BeingsSimpleEnvironmentBehaviorReflectionChaosComplexity Author:Herbert Simon