对于任何名副其实的艺术家来说,自然界中的一切都是美丽的,因为他的眼睛无畏地接受所有外在的真理,像在一本打开的书中一样,在那里读到所有内在的真理。
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
The brain has specialized networks for maintaining alertness, orienting to sensory events, and resolving conflict among responses.
Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears TO-DAY of past Regrets and future Fears: To-morrow!—Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
选自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·相刺》。橘柚生长于江南,各地的人吃起来都有甜的感觉,这是因为大家的味觉是相同的;郑国卫国的音乐,大家都觉得好听,那是因为大家对声音效果的感受是相同的。这句话以吃橘柚的感觉与听音乐的感受为喻,说明是非好坏的标准是客观存在的,人类社会的价值认同大体是相同的。
没有赞誉,也没有毁谤,或如龙之腾飞,或如蛇之潜藏,随时势而变化,不执着于一端,或进取或退处,以平静和顺为准则,悠然自得,生活在万物的初始状态,按物性去主宰万物,而不为物所役使,这样,怎么会受到拘束和牵累呢?