After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there read more

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.

Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.

Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.

A pot clashes with its lid
In someones hurried kitchen
A telephone boils off the hook.
Outside, a car door
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A pot clashes with its lid
In someones hurried kitchen
A telephone boils off the hook.
Outside, a car door
An airplane pulls a drag of cloud.
muffled thunder.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.

Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.

Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.

He gives us the very quintessence of perception.

He gives us the very quintessence of perception.