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No doubt? No dialogue!
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What we need to understand may only be expressible in a language that we do not yet know
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Everything does not do it for me
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If one does not understand how one is part of the problem, one cannot understand the nature of the solution required
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Live like a forest -- or Die like a tree
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We can eat without recipes, whether well or badly. But we cannot eat recipes
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What we now know to be true may later prove to be less meaningful than understanding why we believed this to be so before it was reframed by a larger truth
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Why endeavour to be elsewhere, if one cannot be here?
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When and where can what be proven to be factual and by which means: how can this be achieved with any credibility, by whom; why would they endeavour to do so?
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Most of those, whose views currently condition thinking, are long dead
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To define is to remove all that is fine from that which one perceives
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| 8-fold Continuity of flow |
| When the timing is right And where is well-found Which way needs no choosing For emergence of know-how To enable what is called for Through embodying an identity In fulfilment of purpose -- Thus engendering a new cycle No questions !? |
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Questions last -- Answers multiply and rot
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Questions are engendered by the encounter with the wilderness of knowing -- answers are the urbanization and industrialization of knowing
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Beware of the principle of uncertainty underlying vision -- whether the partiality of photo-opportunities or the continuity of waving to the crowd
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If "development" engenders so many problems in modern society, might it be "velopment" which would ensure sustainable improvements to quality of life?
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Rather than "peak oil", perhaps the concern should be with "peak meaning" -- with the former but one metaphor for the latter.
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If objects object, objectively speaking, to what are subjects subject, subjectively speaking? And conversely speaking?
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Why not reallocate some resources from the eternal challenges of disagreeing about agreement to the subtle possibilities of agreeing about disagreement?
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In pursuit of their political agendas, are religions discredited by exploiting "God" as a Trojan horse ?
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How to know whether it is better to know more and more about less and less, or less and less about more and more?
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How can the wise "make a difference" without disagreeing?
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If the purpose of "national intelligence" is to destroy relationships threatening communities and lifestyles, what kind of "intelligence" would be required to build sustainable community and relationships?
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Who is the muse for whom one writes -- thereby amusing oneself?
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"I have friends who are always telling me how much management of complexity is required to keep things simple for me" (with apologies to Gandhi and the Law of Requisite Variety)
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It is not the differences in point of view that are problematic, but rather the lack of attention to the topography that provides some justification for all of them
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How is the wisdom of the airbrushed distinct from that of the windswept -- or of the seriously bald?
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If wisdom is required to respond to the challenge of sustainable development, how might that wisdom be best embodied in music and song?
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For everyone, dialogue may involve the reconciliation of the clear "ping" of one's own insight with the sharp and musty "pong" of the other's
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If that which one values most in oneself lends itself least to ready description, is the reverse also true?
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Every observation is an element of what could be fruitfully called into question
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If spiritual insight is as simple as acclaimed by the wise, why the need for such lengthy religious texts?
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Paradoxically, any oversight role fails through the accumulation of its oversights
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To what extent does a project involve projection of some form of projectile -- and how is any damage to be recognized?
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If the For...umms of the world cannot unite, Why be astonished if its peoples fight?
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Optimists and positive thinkers buy lottery tickets, in the expectation of mana from elsewhere. Pessimists and cynics feel obliged to get their own act together -- to deal with the challenges they face
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Everything is so deadly serious that a viable Theory of Everything can only be profoundly funny
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Nothing Is Happening Here and Now
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Since "yoga" signifies "union" (in Sanskrit), the corollary may be that the challenge of any "union" of significance must imply some form of "yoga"
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Is global communication enabled by currents of feeling in an ocean of meaning -- or is it currents of meaning in an ocean of feeling? Or both?
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Arguments for or against "moral equivalence" are pure exercises in scholasticism to those terrorized by unrestrained violence -- irrespective of the belief of those perpetrating it
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No authority with the power to mislead is able to prove with any credibility that it is not in the process of misleading
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The great thing about "terrorism" for the intelligence communities is that no thinking is required -- it is always "al-Qaida" !
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So many impressive foundations are created, but so little is constructed upon them
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Are there as many black holes in the universe as there are individuals on Earth?
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As an acronym, is a theorem: a reminder of divinity? a memory of the divine? a memo from god? a clue to divination? a divine glance?
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If, according to Socrates, an unexamined life is not worth living, might an unexamined faith render worthless the lives of others?
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The meta-pattern that connects is a synaesthetic pattern, not to be re-membered through a single sense or mode of knowing
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Agreement between those who claim special insight, or who are perceived as wise, is only achieved by excluding those with whom they disagree
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What do we learn from having the opportunity to do what we subsequently fail to achieve?
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Philosophy is a process of draconian personal hygiene, better to be in time with others -- those not encountered out of time
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The inconvenient truth about truth would seem to be that its simplicity is not to be found where it would be most convenient for it to be
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Is life the effort to process a free download of information from the stars?
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How does one indicate a framework of higher dimensionality from within one of lower dimensionality -- by "pointing"?
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Given the number of keynote speakers on vital strategic issues, why can we not hear the music they elicit?
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Collaboration -- where neither party is committed to do anything in the expectation that from that synergy something will emerge?
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Any insight one has impells one further out-of-sight for others (if not out-of-mind)
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For those constrained to live in the plane of reality, what options are there when everything has been explaned?
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Envisaging a sustainable future may require a degree of eye-mortality
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Although those who cannot remember the past may be condemned to repeat it, re-membrance of it may be valuable in enabling its processes to be replicated at a subtler level
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Where is the "there" at which I am "here"?
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Sustainable governance is necessarily sexy -- and if it is not then it is unlikely to be sustainable
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If truth is two-eyed then governance is necessarily double-breasted
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Systemic ignorance is not a valid plea before Gaia's cybernetic law
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It is not a question of whether a model will fly, but rather of whether one can engage with it and thereby be enabled to fly it oneself
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Living is doing time
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One person's meat is another person's bull
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To see the universe in a football game and heaven in a ball ? Hold infinity in awareness now and eternity in a mall ? (with apologies to William Blake, Auguries of Innocence)
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Live like a forest or die a log
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A fact is but a memorial to a moment of knowing
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The sustainability of the environment is ensured by the co-existence of many species that, by definition, do not engage in fruitful intercourse.
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Wisdom is the art of being ignorant
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It is not whether it is relevant, but where, when and how it is relevant -- and why
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The reality of one person necessarily implies a pattern of denial for another
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It is the nature of distractions to expand and expropriate any available attention time
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Is increasing wisdom, as claimed by those of advancing years, merely a device to intimidate those puzzled by their increasing incomprehensibility?
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It is not whether it is relevant, but where, when and how it is relevant -- and why
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Being fully "here" is a prerequsite for any meaningful reflction on "having gone"
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Is it what one believes that matters, or whether others care?
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If one does not take care of globality one will be taken care of -- by globality
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Myth is a form of explanation with which one can meaningfully engage
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The useless are getting ready -- now that the useful have demonstrated the nature of their incompetence
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Does the secret of global governance lie in the riddle of a cross word?
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Does death result from exhausting the cognitive geometry on which we choose to live?
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"Toroidal brain" ? Does the "global brain" have a "hole in the head" ?
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If I am a strange loop Could you be one too? Stranger still the community That might sustain us two?
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By the time you have been re-cognized, it is already too late
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Like "magic carpets", the key to the transportation potential of values lies in how they are interwoven -- and how that is appreciated.
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Is meta-discourse necessarily unsustainable?
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How does an anomaly become irrelevant?
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The present is a moment of insight precluding those of the future
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Governments now stand for nothing, other than the appearance of standing for something
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Dialogue with those who know "the answer" is much less fruitful than dialogue between those who know they do not
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Factuality, objectivity and authority are commodities whose quality and price vary according to market principles
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Science is a cultural product suffering from the delusion that it is not
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The greater one's sense of comprehension, the greater one's probable incomprehensibility -- especially to oneself
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Is nonsense everything that is not sensationalist?
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If you are not aware of any constraint on more fruitful comprehension of your reality, you may well be that constraint
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Authority is the primary means
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For adequate comprehension of anything, the cognitive organization of the beholder needs to be of greater complexity than that attributed to the beheld (in the light of the Law of Requisite Variety)
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Declarative statements and naming do not constitute knowledge and knowing
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Science precludes the possibility of any future discovery which has not been authorised by its current methodology and mindset
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If one does today what one did a year ago, In a year's time one will probably be where one is today
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Topologically, a static knot may be used to describe precisely what a person is dynamically not
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If one believes one is right, What could possibly be wrong with that?
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Derivation of qualitative significance is inversely proportional to the quantity of information available
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Is it only poetry that is capable of giving expression to unknowledge and the unsaid?
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Do functional communities of the "dysfunctional" merit appreciation in contrast with dysfunctional communities of the "functional"?
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Should any envisaged change, whether social, political, economic, or technological, provide for backward compatibility with the "left behind"?
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People accumulate obligations until they are overwhelmed
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When having the power to fake it, and successfully pretend otherwise, it is virtually impossible to prove that this is not the case
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What is the point of being "right" in a democracy, if the majority disagree, framing the insight as "wrong"?
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