How could a self be anything but self-referential? Aren’t all regurgitated references still filtered and selected through self-perspective/history/bias?
Tag: universe
Cradle
“
Neither the spider has planned for the leaf nor the leaf for the spider—and yet there they are, an accidental pendulum propelled by the same forces that cradle the moons of Jupiter in orbit, animated into this ephemeral early-morning splendor by eternal cosmic laws impervious to beauty and indifferent to meaning, yet replete with both to the bewildered human consciousness beholding it.”
-Maria Popova
Figuring
Sea of dots
“
I am that sea and have come into a bowl; I am that dot and have come into a letter…”
-Bābā Ṭāher
(via Human Flow directed by Ai Weiwei)
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