Tropic of Cancer
The language of society is conformity; the language of the creative individual is freedom.
Henry Miller • Stand Still Like the Hummingbird (New Directions Paperbook)
Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
The origins of the word chaos illuminate its medicine: it is derived from the Greek khaos , referring to the void which was said to exist before the cosmos was created. Chaos, then, is the womb which waits patiently for new life: the potential out of which an entirely new world might be born. It can take you on a pretty wild ride, but that might ju... See more
Dr Sharon Blackie • A manifesto for thriving at midlife
These words initiate a series of prudential maxims on how to conduct one’s life in the face of the unpredictability of events and their deterministic character that is beyond human control.