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“Each moment is now. Reality amounts to flickering lapses in time, as infinite layers of now. And with this constant motion we think of ourselves as being at rest. When in actuality we are zooming t...”
“You can be anything you want to be as long as you know who you are. Paradoxically, once you realize this, you begin to lose your sense of self.”
“Humans must experience suffering in order to comprehend the importance of their existence. -- Masaaki Hisakawa (Chapter 4)”
“He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.”
“Memory is that element in our consciousness that connects the past with the present. If we had no memory, there would be only one moment of our life, the moment we call now, and we would never cons...”
“Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.”
“No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny,cannot withhold if denied: the weight ...”
“One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.”
“What is it like to burn as the humans do? When ones existence can be parcelled and measured in the units that the humans use, what was it? Time. Units of time. Ability to calculate, and live throug...”
“I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not measure or explain. The things we couldn't explain went right on but s...”
“Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.”
“It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man -...”
“I wonder now if [the gods] take from us that which we love so we must seek them, if only to scavenge for meaning in this existence.”
“Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.”
“What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!”
“That there is indeed a limit upon science is made very likely by the existence of questions that science cannot answer and that no conceivable advance of science would empower it to answer It is no...”
“There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.”
“Or is it the case that no one gets over anything? Is there really that much pain and suffering continuing right now at this minute, in millions of hearts, in bodies carrying on the burden of existe...”
“And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, glowed and increased, and was suddenly extinguished in the little puffs of smoke and tired thoughts.”
“They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.”
