Mostardis Newtown Quotes & Sayings

The present is the only things that has no end. — Erwin Schrodinger

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. — Pablo Picasso

Core consciousness operates in the present, rebuilding itself moment by moment, mapping out how the self is altered by external objects, draping perceptions with feelings. Extended consciousness uses the same mechanisms, but now binds memories and language into each moment of core consciousness, qualifying emotional meaning with autobiographical past, labelling feelings and objects with words, and so on. Thus extended consciousness builds on emotional meaning, integrating memory, language, past and future, into the here and now of core consciousness. The selfsame neural handshaking mechanisms allow a vast expansion of parallel circuitry to be bound back into a single moment of perception. — Nick Lane

Saying of the Prophet
Truth
Speaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars. — Idries Shah

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness. — William James

IMPROVIDENCE
The other lives I might have led
All now might as well be
Dead. Survived by no one.
Barren, without issue of any sort:
This withered bud, failed
In art and love. With no time left
To change my course. But time enough
for infinite remorse. — John Tottenham

And I'm leaving you that plant," he lamented. "You are good with plants, aren't you?"
Great, I lied. (I could make the Congo wither and die...) — Wilton Barnhardt

Sometimes it helps to lie. You tell yourself a story, even if you don't know the ending. — Megan Mayhew Bergman

Sometimes a stronger, more realistic faith is birthed in the darkest of pits. — Jo Ann Fore

Every life has its radiance and beauty. — Hermann Hesse

He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck. — Tove Jansson

Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protect the planet. — Tristram Stuart