ILLUMINATION.
February 2010
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Quantum Possibility: ... Every word we speak resonates with the history of all those who... →
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Every word we speak resonates with the history of all those who have spoken before us. Residual memories of thoughts, emotions, life and even death become part of an evolving interaction. Language is by no means perfect. It is malleable, relative, and easily abused. As long as there is more…
“We replace the unknown with the known through the substitution of words and by the time a child is two or three they have completely created a cultural mosaic of words that is interposed between them and reality. Reality from that point on is only an unconfirmed rumor brought through the medium of language and every culture accentuates different parts of reality so that in a sense every culture is a different reality. Language is the stuff of the world, not quarks or wave-packets or neutrinos, but language. Everything is made of language. All the constructs of science are actually interlocking constructs of syntax. So that’s ordinary language which seems to define reality through a kind of process of lying about it. For instance by creating subject-object distinctions which are, in fact, not true to the matter, but somehow operationally necessary for us to navigate in the kind of lower dimensional space that we inhabit.”
—Terrence McKenna (via quantumpossibility)
“To study without thinking is futile. To think without studying is dangerous.”
— Confucius (via fringesofmind) (via nihilnoetia)
“The poor and low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. “Blessed be nothing” and “The worse things are, the better they are” are proverbs that express the transcendentalism of common life.”
— Emerson
