Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to read more
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything read more
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar read more
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best read more
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.
He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.
The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide read more
The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.
