Archive for the 'Wise Humans' Category

Possibility/impossibility, improbability & love

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
“The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.”
- Richard Dawkins
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
- Carl Sagan
(Thanks to @SaganSchools for these wonderful quotes)

The right idea

“The right idea has the power to overcome any challenge. We can always find that idea.”
- Ray Kurzweil

Truth

“If you love the truths that you find in your soul, do not abandon them because someone outside of your soul does not agree with them or ridicules or questions them. You are not saying that your truth is THE truth. You are saying that it is YOUR truth.
There is no such thing as THE [...]

Focus

“I will stop living life for a future happiness that does not & may never exist. I will live for now & stop wasting my time. Every moment I live can be as beautiful as a fantasy. Every second of life is precious. I vow to stop wasting my time on these dreams that turn [...]

Osho on Creativity

Some excerpts from a most excellent article by Osho that I read recently (which you can read in full here):
“Anything can be creative — you bring that quality to the activity. Activity itself is neither creative nor uncreative. You can paint in an uncreative way. You can sing in an uncreative way. You can clean [...]

Mystery

“If you want to freely live or die, go or stay, to take off or put on your clothes, then right now recognize the person who is listening to this discourse. That one is without form, without characteristics, without root, without source, and without any dwelling place, yet is brisk and lively. As for all [...]

“We are not cut from the same cloth”

I recently revisited this excellent interview with Jon Cobb in Shannon Laratt’s ‘Opening Up‘. You can download the 460-page PDF for free, and the interview I’m quoting is the second one that Laratt did with him. There’s so much wisdom in his words and so much that I really agree with and find true to [...]