This is a very serious matter… that the way that human beings think, certainly the way that I think, is in terms of stories… Now what is a story? A story, if it so please you, is a metaphor… If you look at these two plants, you will see that they are essentially metaphors, one [...]
What is the difference between the apple, and the taste of the apple on the tongue?
One of my favourite quotes of all time. And it makes sense to me to approach one’s own convictions with a degree of humility, flexibility, joyful uncertainty and playful doubt. Bob did it so well.
I don’t believe anything, but I have many suspicions.
I strongly suspect that a world “external to,” or at least [...]
Everything is alive. What we call dead is an abstraction
David Bohm
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.
Buckminster Fuller