The trial never ends. We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind to new horizons. And for one brief moment, you did. For a fraction of a second, you were open to options you’d never considered. THAT is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.
TV: Star Trek
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Don’t you enjoy being alive? Don’t you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I’m real, I’m solid, I’m alive! Don’t you like this?
Book: 1984
I was fine when existence had no meaning. Meaninglessness in a universe that has no meaning — that I get. But meaninglessness in a universe with meaning? What does that mean?
TV: Wonderfalls
…and I discovered to my delight and amazement that the world is quiet a complex place, quiet a large percentage of it goes on outside the descriptive power of any metaphor that we presently have a handle on.
When I create films, I look at the theatre as a temple. The audience sits in the dark with their senses alert and their defenses down. It is a perfect opportunity to bypass the viewer’s personality and address their inner being.
The basis of my existence is weird: whenever I ponder this life, however superficially, I get struck by an immediate lack of understanding, a hopeless, unfilled amazement.
Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering in order that they may have existence.
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all.
Then he’s tried believing in the Universe, which seemed sound enough until he’d innocently started reading new books with words like Chaos and Time and Quantum in the titles. He’d found that even the people whose job of work was, so to speak, the Universe, didn’t really believe in it and were actually quite proud of not knowing what it really was or even if it could theoretically exist.
Book: “Good Omens” by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, p 162
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth
naelyn /
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Mathematics, philosophy, religion, psychology, mysticism, science, art (and the other means of communication), all translate life and existence into their own comprehensible language, but a translation never captures the true essence of what it seeks to translate. Remember that and life can speak without words.