"Nothing outside yourself can cause you any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm." - Shunryu Suzuki
tag > Philosophy
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"When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Silence is the best answer to a fool's noise.
Silence is more powerful than proving a point. -
Matryoshka Analysis
When tackling complex issues—whether in R&D, design, philosophy, politics, or beyond—a powerful technique is to deliberately shift your vantage point, change your perspective and explore different levels of abstraction. I call this the Matryoshka Analysis.
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"One cannot create beauty; one can only create circumstance favorable to it" -Rainer Maria Rilke
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"You exist as an idea in your mind." - Shunryu Suzuki
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Silence
“Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word.” ~ William S. Burroughs, The Ticket That Exploded
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"Science does not remove the terror of the gods" - Elvira, the 1990 RPG game
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My 4y old woke me up at 5am to tell me: "All people have to die some day. My grandma, my grandpa, you, me, everybody will die — even god".
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登竜門 - (tōryūmon, gateway to success) - a Japanese word which originated in an old adage that says only a carp that can climb a rapid stream can transform into a dragon. Today, it suggests critical trials.
