You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.