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“I loved weather, all weather, not just the good kind. I loved balmy days, fearsome storms, blizzards, and spring showers. And the colors! Everyday brought something to be admired: the soft feathery patterns of cirrus clouds, the deep, dark grays of thunderheads, the lacy gold and peach of the early morning sunrise. The sky and its moods called to me.”
― L. Jagi Lamplighter, Prospero Lost

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“I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets around stars makes electrons dance in your heart. It is in you, outside you, you are it. It is beautiful. Trust in this. And your life will be grand.”
― Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth

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(Jan 10, 2019 07:55 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]“I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets around stars makes electrons dance in your heart. It is in you, outside you, you are it. It is beautiful. Trust in this. And your life will be grand.”
― Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth


A generalization like "matter" has a long tradition of being abused as if a concrete or specific object, but even energy slash "accounting" being reified? When we get right down to it, there doesn't actually seem to be any "stuff" even in scientific realism's elevation of nature to a metaphysical version of the external world. That is, if we pursued its realism past the sub-atomic particle tracks left in instruments to either Quantum Field Theory (i.e., there only immaterial-like extended domains of fluctuating magnitudes) or the unification of GR and QM. (After that NOVA episode last night ["Einstein's Quantum Riddle"] one can apparently say that the unification trend of treating spacetime as a holographic projection built from quantum entanglement -- from qubits residing on an infinitely distant sphere -- is finally "out there" in the public.)

However, when referring purely and non-speculatively to the world as expressed in extrospective consciousness (sensation and outer experience) -- then the primitive source of the generic expression "stuff" is indeed tangible phenomena. Any generalizations derived from those particulars (like George Berkeley's dismay over the reification of "matter") are as abstract as the 2+2=4 codification that has had the original empirical content stripped away of a pair of apples being added to a pair of oranges (etc).

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"What any desire really aims at, is a state of non-desire. This non-desire is a state in which we demand absolutely nothing. Thus it is a state of extreme abundance, of fullness. This fullness is revealed as being bliss and peace. You now know that you are really seeking nothing else but fullness and absolute peace.”
― Jean Klein, Be Who You Are

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"We may find ourselves asking, 'Why am I here? What is life? Who am I?' Sooner or later any intelligent person asks these questions. What you are looking for is what you already are, not what you will become. What you already are is the answer and the source of the question. In this lies its power of transformation. It is a present actual fact. Looking to become something is completely conceptual, merely an idea. The seeker will discover that he is what he seeks and that what he seeks is the source of the inquiry.” ---Jean Klein, "I Am"
“We pimp our precious lives to the infernal gnashing babble - Follow me! Friend me! Like me! But don't ever know me.”
― Patrick Marber, Don Juan in Soho: After Molière
“I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
-Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

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Jean-Yves Boucheron: "An enemy is always searching for kryptonite, a crucifix, a silver bullet. You preempt his discovery, or reap from his futility, by encouraging him on that which does not work. But his selection must be naturally of his own experiments, in his own grounds, issuing from his own amour propre. You cannot serve a false Achilles' heel to an enemy as fine cuisine. Once the hollow harrying becomes his habit, the manipulation and its theatrics can even be quietly revealed. But his own conceit will view this as reckless despair, causing him to treasure his find and empty weapon all the more." --The Art of Silent Amusement

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