David Cole on Donkeyspace

"Why can’t we see this, too, as nature sorting itself into delicate, complex, semi-stable equilibria? [...] You would be too excited to try out this superpower on museums and libraries, on kindergarten concerts and family reunions and busy street corners and starry skies and lecture halls and crowded bazaars and lonely ponds!" I try not to be that guy, but damn it: meditation, you're talking about meditation! 😭 "The Eye of Man, a little narrow orb, clos’d up & dark, Scarcely beholding the Great Light, conversing with the ground: The Ear, a little shell, in small volutions shutting out True Harmonies & comprehending great as very small"