pleasant revelations over shocking surprises

“nacha so, nacha anno”

Pali, “not the same, yet not another”

“Oceanic feeling”, the feeling of being one with the universe as a child, as a form of progression, not regression (contrary to Freud).

man you want an intellectual answer or a groovy answer to that?

To live content with small means. To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. To be worthy not respectable, and wealthy not rich. To listen to stars and birds and babes and sages with an open heart. To work hard, think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions. Never hurry. In a word, to let the spiritual, the unbidden and the unconscious rise up through the common. This is my symphony.

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.”

— Thomas Szasz