The whole of life lies in the verb seeing. —Teilhard de Chardin

 

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The world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events. 

A stone is prototypical 'thing': we can ask ourselves where it will be tomorrow. Conversely, a kiss is an 'event'. It makes no sense to ask where the kiss will be tomorrow. 

The world is made up of networks of kisses, not of stones. On closer inspection, in fact, even the things that are most 'thing-like' are nothing more than long events.

—Carlo Rovelli

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It’s not so much that we don’t have a self, rather it’s that the self we do have is not a thing. 

It is an impermanent, fluctuating activity, a process not a particle, a verb not a noun. 


—Shinzen Young

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One regret, dear world

That I am determined not to have 
When I am lying on my deathbed 

Is that 
I did not kiss you enough.


—Hafiz

 

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