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From Deep Thinking, Garry Kasparov

Kalewife

Goals

The trouble with setting goals is that you’re constantly working toward what you used to want.

From 300 Arguments, Sarah Manguso

A hope

As long as beings exist,

As long as space lasts,

May I, too, remain

To dissipate the suffering of the world!

Shantideva

Communion and frienship

The very nature of God, therefore, is to seek out the deepest possible communion and friendship with every last creature on this earth.

From God for Us, Catherine LaCunga as quoted in The Divine Dance, Richard Rohr

Changes and communication

Family counselors have a saying, “She changed but forgot to tell others she changed.” In other words, issues in relationships often arise not because of the change that occurred, but due to a failure to discuss what brought about the change and what it means.

Time spent around the table with one another is time spent with God.

Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell

Physics and order

There are two mathematically equivalent ways of describing each physical law: either as the past causing the future, or as nature optimizing something.

Page 251, Life 3.0: Begin human in the age of artificial intelligence, Max Tegmark

Only one

Martha, Martha, you worry about ten thousand things. So few are needed. Indeed only one.

Paraphrase of Luke 10:42 in Immortal Diamond, Richard Rohr

Intelligent life on earth?