Michele Pasin / Quotes

Problems can only be transcended

For a moment I saw into the mind of God. Everything was equal—that was the secret. All creation was of a piece. Problems, and this was as clear as a bell, can never be solved, they can only be transcended. All you can do is step back into a larger and more inclusive frame; and in that bigger frame things are perfect just the way they are. It was a flawless

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#God #problem #unity #psychedelics

Asking the proactive question

So on the third day, we decided to focus on the proactive question, “What is our response? What are we going to do? How can we exercise initiative in this…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #proactivity #problem #decisions

DOAJ keeps dodgy journals out

When Lars Bjørnshauge founded a website to index open-access journals in 2003, just 300 titles made the list. But over the next decade, the open-access…

Open-access Website Gets Tough : Nature News & Comment #today #problem

Deep problems need a deeper level of thinking

Albert Einstein observed, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” As we look around…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #paradigms #principles #character #problem

Direct, indirect and no-control problems

The problems we face fall in one of three areas: direct control (problems involving our own behavior); indirect control (problems involving other people’s…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #control #problem #habits

Does technical progress get anywhere?

In solving problems, technology creates new problems, and we seem, as in Through the Looking-Glass, to have to keep running faster and faster to stay where we…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #jet-aircraft #aircraft #problem #technology

Form follows function and the Lamarckian fallacy

Another problem with Sullivan’s law is that the sentence “form follows function” indicates that the relationship between the two components is unidirectional…

The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization #law #thought #world #problem