“The idea of doing one’s part, though, should be so
simple: Wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands. It’s
a mystery to me how somehow that has been wiped out of what should be ingrained
in the behavior of us all.”
The only thing we can truly bequeath to the next generation are Roots and Wings. I hope this blog inspires you to share yours.
7/31/2020
Truth Coming out of the Well
According to a 19th-century legend, the Truth and the Lie meet one
day. The Lie says to the Truth: "It's a marvelous day today"! The Truth
looks up to the skies and sighs, for the day was really beautiful. They
spend a lot of time together, ultimately arriving beside a well. The Lie
tells the Truth: "The water is very nice, let's take a bath together!"
The Truth, once again suspicious, tests the water and discovers that it
indeed is very nice. They undress and start bathing. Suddenly,
the Lie comes out of the water, puts on the clothes of the Truth, and
runs away. The furious Truth comes out of the well and runs everywhere
to find the Lie and to get her clothes back. The World, seeing the Truth
naked, turns its gaze away, with contempt and rage. The poor Truth
returns to the well and disappears forever, hiding therein, its shame.
Since then, the Lie travels around the world, dressed as the Truth,
satisfying the needs of society, because, the World, in any case,
harbors no wish at all to meet the naked Truth. ~~ The world-famous painting- "The Truth coming out of the well" Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896.
7/30/2020
Heisenberg
"Only a few know, how much one must know, to know how little one
knows. ~ Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976)
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7/07/2020
Max Planck on consciousness
"I regard consciousness as
fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness." -
Max Planck, whose work on quantum theory won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in
1918
7/02/2020
Membrane
"There
are webs of complexity that tie everything together, and they are more
numerous than the stars in the night sky. At the moment of
self-organization of the bacterial membrane, complex feedback loops,
both interoceptive and exteroceptive, immediately formed. Information
from both locations began traveling in a huge, never-ending river
composed of trillions upon trillions of bytes of data to the
self-organized, more-than-the-sum-of-the-parts living system that had
come into being. The system began, in that instant of
self-organization, to modulate both its interior and exterior worlds in order to maintain its state.
It began to modulate its environment."
This We Know
"This we know:
All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We did not weave the web of life,
we are merely a strand in it.
Whatever we do to the web,
we do to ourselves.”
Chief Si'ahl (Seattle)
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