Filip Novotný

“He said silently and with infinite volume, Mind is only matter that knows it is matter. Matter is only mind that is yet to become mind.”
― Exurb1a, Geometry for Ocelots

“Will not mankind, which was born in the desert, as all the sources attest, have to return there to its cradle? And then to whom will he turn for advice, this sweaty urbanite, with his broken-down Fiat, with his refrigerator and no place to plug it in? Will he not start searching for the Turkman with the gray beard, the Tuareg wrapped in a turban? They know where the wells are, which means that they know the secret of survival and salvation. Their knowledge, devoid of scholasticism and doctrinairism, is great, because it serves life. In Europe they have the habit of writing that people of the desert are backward, even extremely backward. And it doesn’t occur to anyone that this is no way to judge a people who have been able to survive millennia under the most dire conditions, producing a culture that is most valuable because it is practical, a culture that allowed entire nations to exist and develop while during that very same time many sedentary civilizations fell and disappeared forever from the face of the earth.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, Imperium

“The after-death state is very much like a dream state, and its dreams are the children of the mentality of the dreamer”
― Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead

“The longer I live, the more I rebel. I'm not going to give in; I want to conquer the world!”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek