Almost

Remove consciousness from the world and it almost makes sense.

The poetic world

The poetic world also has blood and pettiness, loss and death, just in better balance.

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The poets (Grutter)

The whole scientific community, perhaps all nature, is in labor to give birth to its poets. They are its eyes.... The poets are the seed crystals on which the latent capacities of a people can precipitate.

Theo Grutter, Dancing With Mosquitoes

On democracy

A democracy is not beholden to the past. Those who lived before have been disenfranchised.

Beauty

Life courts beauty, but death always wins her hand.

The things

The things that are hard for me to let go of are the things I don't understand.

Our foolishness

I think perhaps we like our foolishness
best of all.

On probability

Certainty is allusive, but probability is usually enough.

Fifty

50

What we love

Love is not what we love, but devotion.

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Differentiation

Differentiation depends upon slight variations in charge.

The brevity

The brevity of clarity lends levity to parity.

Naturally

We've adopted what others have adapted
and called it natural, normal, inevitable.

On nature

Nature works fine, works better, without self-awareness.

The conflicts

It's the conflicts that stick.

On hope

Hope is a naïve stance toward need.

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Given a moment (Raab)

How many times are we given a moment
that could be important, then isn't?

Lawrence Raab, from "Restoration"

Anxiety

Anxiety is a biased adviser.

How much

When everything is supposed to change, how much we resent what stays the same.

So few seers (Grutter)

Why continue stepping on the gas and going for ever more power—and friction. It's those with less power—and more vision that are in demand. So many doers still, so few seers! With my surplus of strength and time I can do better than performing some good work to improve the world, even better than building pyramids; in such a luxurious blue spring, I can dive into the science of serenity with an uncommitted mind that is all ears, and for a treat simply intoxicate myself with the goodness of life; and who knows, I might get my first taste of an unsinkable high.

Theo Grutter, Dancing With Mosquitoes

To be unmoved

To be unmoved by what someone else loves is either cruelty or laziness.

On justice

Justice is something you make, not something you find.

When the world goes mad

When the world goes mad, you have two options: attack it and try to kill it.  Or retreat and try to survive it.

The fittest (Grutter)

One may then also start to wonder whether it is the fittest this or that or whether it is simply the fittest ecosystem that survives.

Theo Grutter, Dancing With Mosquitoes

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On money

Making money produces more problems than having money can resolve.

A studious reading of chaos (Reid)

If I lose my patience,
forgive me. Yesterday
I kicked a troop of saluting
soldiers down the stairs;
but at heart I still adhere
to the maxim, that through a studious
reading of chaos we may
arrive at the grammar of civilization.

Christopher Reid, from "The Ambassador"

On love

Love is imprecision.

Someone who disagrees (Godin)

The reason it's difficult to learn something new is that it will change you into someone who disagrees with the person you used to be.

Seth Godin

The hardest thing

The hardest thing is to fail and learn nothing.

Reaction

Reaction is contingent.

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Heresy

A heresy toward the false may be a truth.

More nourishing (Grutter)

This world is more nourishing when I discover it than when I just eat it up.

Theo Grutter, Dancing With Mosquitoes

Ideology

To reject ideology is ideology.