Michele Pasin / Quotes

Conspiracy theorists

Why does any of this matter? My concern is with the ultimate fate of knowing, of seeing the difference of what you can know and what you wish for. . . . The urge to believe drives people to trade in part of their soul in exchange for the comfort of being a rebel.

Saved 26 February 2013 / scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org ↗

#differences #people #concern #fate

Fate shows us what we shouldn't become

Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #people #mind #fate

News versus gossip

Didier is here. I have all the latest news and gossip for you. You know the difference between news and gossip, don’t you? News tells you what people did…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #differences #people #news

Psychiatrist rick strassman experiments with ayahuasca

The most active alkaloid in ayahuasca is DMT, the tryptamine whose study initiated the current wave of psychedelic research and also occasioned some of the…

Erik Davis - On Psychedelics #concern #religion

The circle of concern

We each have a wide range of concerns—our health, our children, problems at work, the national debt, nuclear war. We could separate those from things in which…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #concern #control #attention

The circle of influence

As we look at those things within our Circle of Concern, it becomes apparent that there are some things over which we have no real control and others that we…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #control #power #concern

Vico's verum-factum principle

Much of the aesthetic and constructivist concerns here can be seen in the early writings of Vico whose 'verum-factum' principle - that what is true is what we…

Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana #writing #principles #concern