How is it possible to pursue just one thing with the kind of single-mindedness that sets everything but that thing to the side, forlorn and forgotten ( Read more... )

I can't figure out where sickness fits into the bigger picture.

Possession: Tiny little mechanical demons, invading and re-programming the cell, so the cells themselves become the attackers.

"I like how you pretend
That the end will be the end,
So fill your thirst and drink a curse
To the death of death instead."

This is...weird.

I think I'm falling in love with someone else.

I believe in the importance of open-mindedness.

But, just as I begin to believe that I have made my mind as open as it can be, I find that I have closed it instead.

All possibilities begin with an open mind.

I feel like I accomplished something today ( Read more... )

I clocked 7 miles with Malia and Perrin in downtown Portland today. :)

I took a pretty bad fall the first mile in, though, and my knees are scraped and there were streaks of blood running down my calves. It was funny to watch people's faces as we passed one another; some looked concerned and others just smirked at me.

It's forgiveness that teaches humility.

Also, I realized today that people who are full of themselves, are full of themselves because they're too insecure to be full of anything - or anyone - else.

Some days, I feel so restless, lost, and confused that I don't know what to do with myself. I lie on the floor and stare at the ceiling for hours. I think about reading, playing a game, watching something, going running - I think about everything under the sun to do, but none of it sounds good at all ( Read more... )

What if God is simply humanity? What if the collective whole is God, like a hive? And out of that collective whole springs something bigger than the collective; to quote Gestalt psychology, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Similar to the way consciousness arises in the brain, perhaps God arises from within us. Most religions say that ( Read more... )