"Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice."
– Tom Robbins, from Still Life With Woodpecker (via ninebagatelles)

(via fuckyeahsolitude)


"I think all writing is done to benefit the writer on some level. Writing becomes a way to organize thought and work your way through a problem. A lot of the book’s questions are my own, and I think that it lends the writing a certain quality. A question isn’t left alone until I’ve sufficiently convinced myself of a satisfactory response to it."

"…as soon as we abandon the first intuition that we have that we’re in control of everything, then we can I start sailing in to the inner cosmos and discovering all sorts of planets and life forms on the inside of our skull,” he says. The awe and wonder of the world will inevitably remain undiminished."
– David Eagleman

"We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true. If we are unable to be alone, we are far more likely to be lonely. If we don’t teach our children to be alone, they will know only how to be lonely."

Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete?

delirium-of-disorder:

It is hard to know how our future descendants will regard the little sliver of history that we live in. It is hard to know what events will seem important to them, what the narrative of now will look like to the twenty-fifth century mind. We tend to think of our time as one uniquely shaped by the advance of technology, but more and more I suspect that this will be remembered as an age of cosmology—-as the moment when the human mind first internalized the cosmos that gave rise to it.

(via theatlantic)

"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment."
– Thich Nhat Hanh

"Thomas Jefferson, writing to his predecessor, John Adams, ‘The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.’"
–  “The God Delusion” - Richard Dawkins