Fersah 1 Quotes & Sayings

To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings. - Wendell Berry — Barbara Brown Taylor

Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily distracted by what is in front of their eyes. Slowly, over a great period of time, our ancestors overcame this basic animal weakness. By looking long enough at any object and refusing to be distracted - even for a few seconds - they could momentarily detach themselves from their immediate surroundings. In this way they could notice patterns, make generalizations, and think ahead. They had the mental distance to think and reflect, even on the smallest scale.
These early humans evolved the ability to detach and think as their primary advantage in the struggle to avoid predators and find food. It connected them to a reality other animals could not access. Thinking on this level was the single greatest turning point in all of evolution - the emergence of the conscious, reasoning mind. — Robert Greene

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness — Jean Vanier

I was a child again. At home, sitting next to Grandfather...

'Ah!' I awoke with a gasp. — Briana Hernandez

Twenty-first-century technology takes the fate out of life. — Gwendolyn Heasley

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister. — George Bernard Shaw