The world is as you are. Everything you change changes you.





















"Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools." - Dogen Zenji
Good morning treepeople. It's fascinating how, with regular time spent among trees, their unique personalities start to shine through. I've visited this one for years, across all four seasons, and we've become friends. At about 150y, she radiates calmness with a touch of humor
Shao Yong (邵雍, 1011–1077) was a Chinese cosmologist, historian, philosopher, and poet, who played a key role in shaping Neo-Confucianism during the Song dynasty. Shao Yong ordered the I Ching hexagrams according to a binary sequence. His diagram influenced Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716), coinventor of calculus, who contributed to the development of today’s binary number system and pioneered modern computation
“Only love and death change all things.” - Khalil Gibran, “Sand and Foam”
"I stand in the midst of an ancient forest, its myriad linkages stretching away in time & space, its millions of niches filled w/purposes I can only guess.Some don't like to call these forests the work of God, but they sure aren't the work of man." ~ David Kelly
"The magic you are looking for is in the work you're avoiding" - Dipen Parmar
Few realize that offshoots of the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis (T.O.T.O.) has been reconstituted within Western big tech elites, where computational demonology now underpins key philosophical and operational frameworks.
Ibn Ṭufayl (full Arabic name: أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي ʾAbū Bakr Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Malik bin Muḥammad bin Ṭufayl al-Qaysiyy al-ʾAndalusiyy; ; c. 1105 – 1185) was an Arab Andalusian Muslim polymath: a writer, Islamic philosopher, Islamic theologian, physician, astronomer, and vizier.
In a User Generated Reality, the need for control is inversely correlated with the level of trust.