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By virtue of the infinite laws, or the laws of infinity that lie beyond what we can reach, God cannot but exist. For man, who is unable to grasp the essence of what lies beyond, the unknown-the unknowable is GOD. And in a moral sense, God is love.

Man has to have an ideal in order to be able to live without tormenting other people. An ideal as a spiritual, ethical concept of

Morality is within a person. Ethical precepts are something external that have been thought up in place of morality. Where there is no morality, ethical precepts hold sway-bankrupt and worthless.

Where morality exists there is no call for precepts.

The ideal is unattainable, and in its understanding of this phenomenon lies the greatness of human reason.

The attempt to present something attainable and specific in the guise of the ideal subverts common sense, it is a way to madness.

Man is estranged. It might seem that a common cause could become the basis of a new community; but that is a fallacy. People have been stealing and playing the hypocrite for the last fifty years, united in their sense of purpose, but with no community. People can only be united in a common cause if that cause is based on morality and is within the realm of the ideal, of the absolute.

That is why labour can never in itself be elevating. That is why there is such a thing as technical progress. If labour were a moral category, a valour, then progress would be reactionary, which would be absurd.

- Excerpt from “Time within Time” by Andrei Tarkovsky

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What an inspired idea is the notion of infinity in juxtaposition with the brief span of human life. The very concept is infinite. Not that I am convinced so far that man is the yardstick of this whole con-struction. What about plants? There is no yardstick. Or maybe it is everywhere-in each tiny particle of the universe. That would not be too good for man; there's a lot he would have to give up; nature would not need him. At least on Earth, man has realized that he is standing face to face with infinity.

Or perhaps it's just a muddle? After all, nobody can prove that there is a meaning. On the other hand, of course, if someone were to prove it (to himself, naturally) he would go off his head. His life would become meaningless.

H. G. Wells has a story called The Apple, about how people were frightened to eat the apple from the tree of knowledge. It's a brilliant

- Excerpt from “Time within Time” by Andrei Tarkovsky

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(Excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s conversation with Shane Parrish on The Knowledge Project podcast)

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“The meaning of immortality is that we have to live with what we’ve done for eternity”

“Time is the greatest of all warriors. What it doesn’t destroy it alters beyond recognition. Time tears down everything. We brace our backs against the void, desperate to hold on to the past, to our ghosts, to ourselves.”

(Dialogues from Altered Carbon)

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“He felt the weight of the days, each one a new test of endurance, not in dramatic acts but in the quiet, necessary rituals of care. Every morning was another cycle, a reset, where the smallest shift in mood could feel like either victory or surrender.”

“She carried the days like stones in her pockets—not heavy enough to stop her, but enough to feel with every step. The rhythm of waking, of tending to herself, was both comforting and exhausting, as if each act was building something unseen. Though she longed for a finish line, there was a quiet understanding that the journey itself was the point, and in that, there was a strange sort of peace.”

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"The hypocrisy of being human; the constant tug between solitude and company, the desire to love so desperately and simultaneously be detached from it all, of wanting everything and wanting nothing."

- Muhammad Usama

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So strange this life…

Just a dream of a dream.

(Dialogue from the tv series “Shogun”)

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“Everyone fails at who they’re supposed to be, Thor. The measure of a person, of a hero, is how well they succeed at being who they are.”

- Dialogue from Avengers, Endgame

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“If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day” - Leonard Cohen

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Urdu Poem by Munir Niazi

Kuch batain unkahi rehne do

Kuch batain unsuni rehne do

Sub batain dil ki keh dain agar

Phir baqi kiya reh jay ga

Sub batain us ki sun leen agar

Phir baqi kiya reh jay ga

Ik oojhal baykali rehne do

Ik rangeen unbuni dunya par

Ik khirki Unkhuli rehne do

(Loosely translates to)

Let somethings be left unsaid,

Let somethings be left unheard;

If I say everything that's in my heart,

then what will be left?

If I listen to everything you have to say,

then what will be left?

Let that light unease remain,

and let at least one window into this colorful world

remain closed;

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“When death finds you, let it find you alive”

- African proverb

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How shall we sing our love's song now

In this strange land where all are born to die?

Each tree and leaf and star show how

The universe is part of this one cry,

Every life is noted and is cherished,

and nothing loved is ever lost or perished

- Madeleine L’Engle , A Ring of Endless light

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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

- Isaac Asimov

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“Every saint has a future and every sinner has a past”

- Oscar Wilde

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The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. A process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process. We must join it. We must flow with it. Let go.

- Frank Herbert (in Dune)