Sunday, May 28, 2023

poet(ry








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We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is.


—Carl Sagan
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death


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Prior to the advent of brain, there was no color and no sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably rather little sense and no feeling or emotion. Before brains the universe was also free of pain and anxiety.


—Roger Sperry


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There is only Seeing. Both the seer and the seen are contained in it.


—Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 




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