This equation plagues me with the simple way it gives the mind a window into a much larger perspective. Infinity is a concept, not a number, so it can only be “approached.” It is more accurate to say that you (or I) become infinitely small...
Topics: belief, infinite, Introspective, Personal, perspective, Universe

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Not knowing is a topic I return to again and again. I’m becoming more certain that I “know” not knowing, next to death awareness, is an extremely important aspect of true spirituality.In his audio book, The End of Your World (which I highly...
Topics: belief, Introspective, knowledge, meditation, mystery

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Last weekend I read The Ruins. It is a horror novel that’s been recently been made into a movie. I’m mentioning it here because of some themes that resonated with me - some of them which I was surprised to find in a novel from this genre....
Topics: books, death, doing, meaning, Personal

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Many Ways to Die - The plant has many ways of killing them. It lures them into a mine shaft that ends up paralyzing one character - the guy who’s legs get cut off. Another character some how gets some of the plant in her stomach and it chokes her...
Topics: books, death, meaning, nature, Personal

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Echo Chamber At one point, several of the characters get drunk, two of the girls start fighting and calling each other names. The plant, they learn, can talk through it’s flowers (I’m not sure how). It starts to repeat the nasty things they...
Topics: books, death, meaning, mind, Personal

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