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An alternative — and better — definition of reality can be found by naming some of its components: air, sunlight, wind, water, the motion of waves, th...more

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The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relations...more

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Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is. And when you presume there’s just one right way to do things, of cours...more

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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

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One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

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Actually I've never seen a cycle-maintenance problem complex enough really to require full-scale formal scientific method. Repair problems are not tha...more

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But the ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals. Full of great ways for others to improve without any expense to themselves. T...more

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Why should an irrational method work when rational methods were all so rotten? He had an intuitive feeling, growing rapidly, that what he had stumbled...more

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To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it’s just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to app...more

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The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor...to tell them what was good...more

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But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spe...more

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But until then, and right now, the sun is bright, the air is cool, my head is clear, there’s a whole day ahead of us, we’re almost to the mountains, i...more

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To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.

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Newton invented a new form of reason. He expanded reason to handle infinitesimal changes and I think what is needed now is a similar expansion of reas...more

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Mountains like these and travelers in the mountains and events that happen to them here are found not only in Zen literature but in the tales of every...more