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So, What’s Going On Here?
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on. A psychotic is a guy who’s just found out what’s going on.
— William S. Burroughs
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…Once, at a course in Europe, a large raven tapped on the window where Karmapa was teaching. When let in, the bird flew directly to Karmapa, after which he instructed two people to go to a barn a few miles down the road where two other birds were trapped and starving. The birds were discovered and rescued.
— Lama Jigme Rinpoche
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, but it is also stranger than we can think… What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning… The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.
~Werner Heisenberg
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Sometimes a man stands up during supper
and walks outdoors, and keeps walking,
because of a church that stands somewhere in the East.
And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead.
And another man, who remains inside his own house,
