The present moment (Murdoch)

The present moment was a little light travelling in darkness.

Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose

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The one thing

Death is the one thing they can't take from you.

Doesn't mean

That they are so frequently wrong doesn't mean I can make them wrong to make myself right.

Almost always

Zero sum is almost always a failure of imagination.

Elaboration

What we elaborate are the operations of consciousness.

How rewarding to know

How rewarding when my words echo someone else's, to know that I am where they have been.

The status of the individual

Is it only the designation as consumer that has elevated the status of the individual in Western society? Do we fade if we do not buy, if we do not use?

Ill-suited

Faith is a personal methodology ill-suited to the impersonal.

What would it be like?

What would it be like to live one's life rather than try to author it?

Sensibilities

Sensibilities exist to be offended.

Change

The more things change,
the less we embrace change.

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Always

Always more nuance.

The purpose of dream

The purpose of dream seems to be to remind self that it is other.

Is not

Co-opting control is not the same as being in charge.

Always & never

Always clarity; never opacity.

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Coincidence

If there is only coincidence,
there is no coincidence.

Their own particular way

Everyone has their own particular way of going wrong.

The nature of reality

Is the nature of reality
more than the reality of nature?

I pickled some vegetables

Poetry is vital

Poetry is vital to language,
but not in the same way
that language is vital to poetry.

More worlds

There are more worlds in a word
than there are words in the world.

Even the essential

Even the essential is superfluous.

Fundamentally

Fundamentally, indifference is hostility.

Self vs. other

Self vs. other becomes more challenging when you realize everything is other, including self.

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Sunshine cake

I made this Sunshine Cake from this recipe.

My theory

My theory is that there are too many conspiring to promote conspiracy theories.

Realism

Realism is just another fantasy.

My footprints

May my footprints go out in front,
and remain when others catch up.

Is it true?

Is it true that what resonates is what matters?

Every one

Every step is a decision,
and every decision is a step.

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Acquisition

Acquisition is not conserved.

Much of life

Much of life is learning to wait faster.

The ordinary

The ordinary is the miraculous.

Corollary

Any insufficiently-advanced technology makes one long for magic.

Don't confuse

Don't confuse frivolity for folly.

A static understanding

A static understanding
understands little.

Faces

Faces are feces.

Of bias

Everything human is built of bias,
this rule included.

On hope

Hope is the excrement of love.

The limits

Examine the limits,
try to understand the limits,
but don't fixate on the limits.

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A small sincere island

Give me a small sincere island
over a false universe.

The delusion

The delusion that we share a language
does so much good,
does so much harm.

Twice

You can't conceive the concept of sameness
the same way twice.

You do not know

You do not know what you see
until you understand the angle
at which you view it.

Is it?

Is agency anomaly?

More, but still

There is more liberty in solitude,
but still, it is limited.

On melancholy

Melancholy is a better appetizer for joy
than for despair.

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Have to

You have to perform it to perfect it.

You can love

You can love indefinitely or infinitely.

Ask me for nothing

Ask me for nothing
unless you first ask me for truth.

More important

Is it more important
not to let evil into your heart,
or not to let any out?

Every vice

Every vice is a voice
speaking of an insufficiency.

The least interesting thing

What you believe is the least interesting thing about you.

All delusions

All delusions are obscene.

Equation

Deviation from expectation:
innovation.

Madness

Progress without kindness is madness.

On consciousness

Consciousness takes consciousness for granted.

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Where, indeed (McLaughlin)

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook

The path to

Dream is the path to the Archive of the Dreamt.

Inevitably

The only worthy adversary:
inevitability.

Abomination

Incorrect certainty is an abomination.

Is it?

If enough is not enough,
then not enough is enough.

An entrance

Every instant is an entrance
to a different reality.

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Why?

Why describe epiphenomena when you can document the reality code?

Paradise

Paradise with borders is not paradise.
A walled garden is a prison.

Rate your government

Rate your government on the difference between what is needed and what is provided.