It's Been a Long Strange Trip: February 2015

Monday, February 23, 2015

The Universe

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time ―

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Ignorance

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge. -- Chuang Tzu --

Monday, February 9, 2015

Happiness

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”
― Zhuangzi ―

Stillness

You can't use activity to find stillness.
-- zen saying --

Saturday, February 7, 2015

Truth

The understanding of a truth and the truth itself cannot be separated. - Tao Te Ching -

The Dreamer

You and I are dreaming this dream, we forgot that we are the dreamer, and we've given everything we dreamt all the power to effect us. -- Paul Hedderman --

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Counting Colors

Creating systems and categories is not unlike counting the colors of a rainbow—both merely detract from our experience of reality, while at the same time limiting our appreciation of the world's richness. --- The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover ---

It's Been a Long Strange Trip