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The Quantum Gods: The Origin and Nature of Matter and Consciousness

by Jeff Love

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Sep 04, 2016 06:24AM

“I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
― Jack London

tags: life, meteor

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“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

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“Greater in battle
than the man who would conquer
a thousand-thousand men,
is he who would conquer
just one —
himself.
Better to conquer yourself
than others.
When you've trained yourself,
living in constant self-control,
neither a deva nor gandhabba,
nor a Mara banded with Brahmas,
could turn that triumph
back into defeat.”
― Buddha

tags: brahma, buddhism, conquest, deva, gandhabba, mara, self-understanding

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“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: distance, time

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“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
― Albert Einstein

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