Repeat after me

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition,
        because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

                    Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

 

 

 

 

 

 

Give it some thought

There have been men before ... who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself... as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poem: Behin the Thunder

I keep looking for one more teacher,
only to find that fish learn from water
and birds learn from sky.

If you want to learn about the sea,
it helps to be at sea.
If you want to learn about compassion,
it helps to be in love.
If you want to learn about healing,
it helps to know of suffering.

The strong live in the storm
without worshiping the storm.

                Mark Nepo

 

 

 

 

 

Friends

Without friends no one would choose to live,
         though he had all other goods.

                Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

 

 

 

 

 

What matters

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

            Hunter S. Thompson, Letter to Hume Logan 1958 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Magical chants

Poetry is a kind of magic in itself:
    the Latin word carmen means "poem" as well as "magical chant".

                     Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counting

Whenever you can, count.

        Francis Galton, The World of Mathematics