Centered. Touching the core. Endorphins rushing, climactic.
What primes this pump, that cool draught drawn from the depths and gushing in a burst of joy? The handle raised and lowered to extrude pure happiness is not levered against a single sweet spot. It is pressed against many fulcrums: the softening of the facial muscles; the upward turn of the corners of the mouth; that momentary retraction somewhere near the heart; the relaxing of the eyes upon the distant horizon.
Can we not choose to be happy?
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each training in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little, but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality and of our frightful position therein that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. – H.P. Lovecraft
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My Favorite Books
- The Gnostic Gospels
- Liberating the Gospels
- The Singularity Is Neaar
- The God Delusion
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Beloved
- In The Laps of Gods
- The Selfish Gene
- A Thousand Acres
- Longitude
- The Killer Angels
- Undaunted Courage
- Fermat's Enigma
- Snow Falling On Cedars
- The Dark Tower series
- Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
- Daughter of Fortune
- The Secret Life of Dust
- The Secret Life of Bees
- Guns Germs and Steel
- Seabiscuit
- Bleak House
- Middlesex
- 9/11 Report
- The End of Faith
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