Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.
Pöpper called that monocausotaxophilia,
Praxis locals spoke French to him, and he could barely understand them. He had to listen hard, hoping his native tongue would come back to him, that the franglaisation and frarabisation he had heard a...
Possibly this formulation itself is the deep diagnostic of all human cognition—the tell, as they say, meaning the thing that tells, the giveaway. In the infinite black space of ignorance, it is as if...
Odd how a few sticks of furniture hung around like that. It made her feel better to see them. They would unpack, deploy the furniture, use it until it became invisible. Habit would once again cloak th...
No happiness but in virtue. No, that wasn't true. Each part of the triune brain has its own happiness. Lizard in the sun, mammal on the hunt, human doing something good. What's good is good for the la...
Much of human language is said to be fundamentally metaphorical. This is not good news. Metaphor, according to Aristotle, is an intuitive perception of a similarity in dissimilar things. However, what...
Maybe that’s what a marriage is, Mqaret said. Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.
Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape
It’s not so bad to be a prisoner, if you’re working on an escape.
Indeed I now think that the Indian and Chinese description of the afterlife, the system of the six lokas or realms of reality – the devas, asuras, humans, beasts, pretas, and inhabitants of hell – is...
In the infinite black space of ignorance, it is as if stands as the basic operation of cognition, the mark perhaps of consciousness itself. Human
If it was 200 Kelvin outside why not say so, rather than talk about witches’ tits and the like,
I say only this! Arkady said, staring at her bug-eyed. We have come to Mars for good. We are going to make not only our homes and our food, but also our water and the very air we breathe—all on a plan...
However, recall that every human lives under pressure. Every human feels various kinds of stress. Then things happen. Badim
How you think about what you're doing makes a huge difference
Hikes in the winter forest, so surreal—Emerson knew about them. He had seen the woods at twilight. Never was a more brilliant show of colored landscape than yesterday afternoon; incredibly excellent t...
Genius is not a matter of intelligence, but of spirit; and we cannot speak accurately of the spirit in any language but music.
For that world out there we just saw. For humanity. What’s it been, about fifteen thousand people, and a couple hundred years? In the big scheme of things it’s not that many. And then we have a new wo...
Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back