“Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms [...] For it, secrecy is not in the nature of an abuse, it is
indispensable to its operation. Not only because power imposes secrecy on those it dominates, but because [...]
“Neutrinos proved very difficult to find because they are ghostly particles that only rarely interact with other matter: an average energy neutrino can easily pass right through many trillion miles of lead
without the slightest effect on its motion. This should give you significant relief, because right now as you read this, billions of neutrinos ejected [...]
“To be in harmony is to be in a conscious and loving relationship with what is. Here, there is no willing or desiring of particulars, for that would imply a fixation on an illusory separate part of the flowing
totality in which we live. Harmony means to have a musical relationship with the world, to enter [...]
“To look at an object, a person, or a landscape with love and without attachment, with no desire for appropriation of it, is to see it more clearly.”
“But perhaps someone will say ‘Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death-penalty?’ I might fairly reply to him ‘You are mistaken my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the [...]
“It is hardly an exaggeration to say that any of the bystanders could have explained those poems better than their actual authors. So I soon made up my mind about the poets too: I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled them to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such [...]