“Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.” WayLifeFeelsWritingSometimesMomentsSeemsHappensBeautifulExistenceParticularTerrorThings HappenBeastEcstasyPortionsPenetrateMonstrousPlungeTotality Author:Arthur Adamov
“On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.” LifeParticularGrewShapesGardenRootsExpertsStemLeafsGardenerSpecialistsCaterpillars Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the species homo sapiens - ourselves. There is nothing about our ancestral line or about our current biology that dictates how we will evolve in the future. Nothing in the natural order demands that our descendants resemble us in any particular way. Very likely, they will not resemble us. We will almost certainly transform ourselves, likely beyond recognition, in the generations to come.” WayLifeLife IsOrderNaturalLinesGenerationsParticularDemandSpeciesCurrentsRecognitionEvolveBiologyAncestorHomo SapiensDescendantsFluxNatural Order Author:Sam Harris