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True contemplation is the most subversive of activities because it undercuts the one thing that normally refuses to give way—our natural individualism and narcissism.

Only if you are thankful and you bless the position you're in, do you become a higher being, do you lift yourself up, and finally you find liberation. But it begins and ends with you. Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to ... See more

All the men I knew were trying to solve space travel and I was trying to solve heterosexual relations, which in my opinion was a harder problem.

Depression as a reliable symptom of unexpressed agency.

You make it difficult because you think it’s difficult.

I wanted to read a poem that had recently moved me. I had been trying to read it every night, as a prelude to dinner or a coda to dinner, but things kept getting in the way. The mood, for instance. It wasn’t a very poem-y poem, but it was a poem, and I guess it had that against it. Still, it was funny and affecting, and I saw it as a moral Trojan h... See more

How to describe the music? Avant-garde, ambient/downtempo, experimental dance music with unusual instruments and sounds drawn from traditional Chinese music. This is a useful description, but it also feels a bit keyword -y, like I’m describing the album for a search engine and recommendations system.

Let me try again. It’s music you can dance to or ... See more

“Time is nature’s way to keep everything from happening all at once.”