A prudent question is one-half of wisdom
– Francis Bacon
I want my peace. I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details
-- Albert Einstein
One should use common words to say uncommon things
― Arthur Schopenhauer
I think it is always important to ask fundamental questions: but when we do ask a fundamental question, most of us are seeking an answer, and then the answer is invariably superficial, because there is no yes or no answer to life. Life is a movement, an endless movement, and to inquire into this extraordinary thing called life, with all its innumerable aspects, one must ask fundamental questions and never be satisfied with answers, however satisfactory they may be, because the moment you have an answer, the mind has concluded, and conclusion is not life, it is merely a static state.
So what is important is to ask the right question and never be satisfied with the answer, however clever, however logical, because the truth of the question lies beyond the conclusion, beyond the answer, beyond the verbal expression. The mind that asks a question and is merely satisfied with an explanation, a verbal statement, remains superficial.
It is only the mind that asks a fundamental question and is capable of pursuing that question to the end that can find out what is truth.
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Total Freedom
The so-called unity of consciousness is an illusion… we like to think that we are one but we are not
— Carl Jung quoted by Science magazine Review: Dissociationism Revived
The Spotlight of attention is parameterized by direction vector, min / max light cone angles (focused or diffused), intensity and duration.
Theodicy is the default answer
Seneca answers in On Providence essae Why do misfortunes happen to good men, if providence exists
So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order. There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil. But nobody in history has had the stomach for such a belief.. The average Christian believes in the monotheist God, but also in the dualist Devil, in polytheist saints, and in animist ghosts
-- Noah Harrari. Sapiens.
Congenital inclination to do evil - 'yetzer hara' (Hebrew: יֵצֶר הַרַע)
Simple explanation for what is nature of Displacement current
How to quantify Purva Punya?
For Fate The willing leads, the unwilling drags along
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Where Daiva - fate, pre-determined supreme predestination and Purushakara - freedom of individual will
ROLE OF DAIVA (FATE)–PURUSAKARA (HUMAN EFFORTS) IN DETERMINATION OF AYU
Wisdom of Serenity Prayer
("...The things that are least important for our survival are the very things that make us human” Particle Fever (2013) documentary)