“Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.” MenArtLife IsCoursesSeaWindSeriesCurrentsShipsConquerCrushTidesReducing Book:The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated Source: The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
“This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.” Life IsChanceStepsImagineWindArgumentStructureComplexesCome UpAriseDiscussionManifestationImagine ThatImprobableLikelihoodBiologistBoeingAssemblingSingle StepWind BlowingJunkyard Author:John Maynard Smith
“In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.” FeelsPhilosophyLife IsAcceptingWindKeysYogaEternityDoersTantra Author:Frederick Lenz
“A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind.” PersonsLife IsWindMysticismLeafsRuinedPersonal PowerLeaves In The WindEasily Influenced Author:Frederick Lenz
“For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call God?--and the string is what we don't know, our Ignorance, and the trail of ash, which, if a gust of wind does not come, keeps the structure of the string, is History, man's Knowledge, but it is dead, and when the fire has burned up all the string, then man's Knowledge will be equal to God's Knowledge and there won't be any fire, which is Life. Or if the string leads to a powder keg, then there will be a terrific blast of fire, and even the trail of ash will be blown completely away.” IfsKnowsMenDoeLife IsFirePiecesIgnoranceWindEqualStructureBurningStringsBurnedAshesTrailsTerrificBlastPowderFuseFire BurningKegs Book:All the King's Men Source: All the King's Men