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Universe, send me a sign. On the tarot card “The Answer”, a hand from the clouds lowers a sign that reads “NO”.The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. — Albert Einstein, “What I Believe” (1930)The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire with its own light. — based on a line attributed to Ferdinand FochThe truth is no longer hidden. Now people hide from the truth.In seahorses, it’s dad who gets pregnant. The female leaves her eggs in his pouch, and he carries them until they are born.A temple with 5-metre stone pillars. 11,500 years ago. Built 6,000 years before “history” began. Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey: circular enclosures with carved T-shaped stone pillars decorated with animals in relief, built around 9500 BC by people with no writing, no wheel and no metal.You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else. — Paul Auster, “Winter Journal” (2012)What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. — Neil Postman, “Amusing Ourselves to Death” (1985)The heart generates the largest electromagnetic field in the body, and that field carries real information. — attributed to Doc Childre (HeartMath)If you wish to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you wish to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation. — Brian Walker, Hua Hu Ching (1992) • attributed to Lao Tzu…inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. — Terry Pratchett, “Moving Pictures” (1990)The way is within us, but not in Gods, nor in teachings, nor in laws. Within us is the way, the truth, and the life. — C. G. Jung, The Red Book (written 1914–1930, published 2009)THE GAME OF LIFE Rules of the game for new players 1. You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it’s yours for the whole of your life. 2. You will be given lessons. You’re enrolled in a school with no holidays and no days off, called life. 3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth comes through trial and error. “Failed” experiments are as much a part of the path as the ones that worked. 4. A lesson repeats until you learn it. It will come back in different forms, again and again. Once you learn it, you move on to the next. 5. Learning never ends. No part of life is without lessons. As long as you live, they will keep coming. 6. “There” is no better than “here”. When “there” becomes “here”, you’ll find a new “there” that again looks better. 7. Others are your mirrors. You can’t love or hate something in someone unless you recognise it in yourself. 8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. The choice is yours. 9. The answers are inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust. 10. You will forget all this. Based on “If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules” by Chérie Carter-Scott (1998).The Fibonacci sequence: each number is the sum of the two before it. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89… Count the spirals at the heart of a sunflower, once clockwise and once counterclockwise. You will usually find two consecutive numbers of the sequence: 34 and 55, or 55 and 89. You will see the same in pine cones (8 and 13) and pineapples. Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci, brought it to Europe in “Liber Abaci” (1202). In India it was known centuries earlier.The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. — C. G. Jung, “Modern Man in Search of a Soul” (1933)Sisyphus on a black-figure ancient Greek vase, pushing a giant open laptop up the hill.Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Notes from Underground” (1864)…and those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music…Whoever did the good deed, keep quiet. Let the one who received it tell the story. — Seneca, “De Beneficiis” 2.11 (c. 56–64 AD)When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators. — Niels Bohr, “Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics” (1949)We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. — Kurt Vonnegut, “Mother Night” (1961)Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. — C. G. Jung, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" (1962)Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind. — Bruce LiptonIf you can't find something positive to say, at least stay quiet.A little girl in a museum copies the pose of the ballerina in a large painting.Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain, notebook (1904)Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet" (1923)We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. — Seneca, “Letters to Lucilius”, 13 (c. 65 AD)QR evolution: the familiar march of evolution, from ape to human, continues with a man hunched over his phone, who breaks into squares and ends up as a QR code.I was ashamed of myself, until I realized that life is a costume party and I'm here with my real face. — attributed to Franz Kafka. A masquerade ball painted like a Dutch oil painting: everyone wears masks except one woman, smiling calmly with her real face.Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors. — Andrew Boyd, "Daily Afflictions" (2002)A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. — Albert Einstein, letter to Robert S. Marcus (1950)If you live without enthusiasm, you’ve missed the point. — attributed to OshoNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. — Goethe, “Die Wahlverwandtschaften” (1809)Meditation: the most productive way to be lazy.Before it becomes a butterfly, the caterpillar stops eating and shuts itself in for days. Even it doesn't know what will come out.When you reread a flawless professional email and realize you wrote it.You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. — attributed to Jane GoodallWhat they taught me to think. What I actually think. On the left, classrooms, books, clocks and offices; on the right, a pegasus, a dragon, floating castles, waterfalls and sacred geometry. In the middle, a young woman looks to the right.It's nice when someone can answer your sarcasm with sarcasm instead of getting offended.Sometimes you fall down because there is something down there you're supposed to find.Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. — Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism” (1891)RELAX. Nothing is under control.Observation brings wisdom. — Anthony Douglas Williams, “Inside the Divine Pattern”Created me divine Omnipotence, the highest Wisdom and the primal Love. — Dante, “Inferno” III, 5–6 (c. 1314), tr. H. W. Longfellow (1867)Four continents. 4,000 years apart. The same shape. Stepped pyramids from Egypt (Djoser, c. 2650 BC), Peru (Caral, c. 2600 BC), Iraq (Ziggurat of Ur, c. 2100 BC), Mexico (El Castillo, Chichén Itzá), Indonesia (Borobudur, Candi Sukuh) and Cambodia (Koh Ker).Love yourself like your life depends on it. Because it does. — Anita Moorjani, author of “Dying to Be Me” (2012)I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. — Jerome K. Jerome, “Three Men in a Boat” (1889)Bad people are really unhappy people. They hurt others because they are hurting themselves. Every person is born with kindness. Meanness is planted in us by other wounded people. — attributed to Bryant McGillIn 2018, Goldman Sachs asked its investors: “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” Yes. They asked it seriously.They told you imagination is for children and poets. A place where unreal things happen. That is the greatest misunderstanding in all of human thought. Imagination is the one and only creative power.Whatever your beliefs, your convictions, your education or your knowledge, if you think you understand the nature of reality, you don't, and you need to look further. If you know that you don't understand, then you truly understand, because reality is unknown to those who know it and known to those who don't. — inspired by the Kena Upanishad“Careful not to burn your bridges, you might need them.” Me when I leave: A sweet kitten sits in front of a boss's office in flames.Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world. — Albert Einstein, interview with G. S. Viereck, Saturday Evening Post (1929)You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974)If we had no eyes, we wouldn't know that colors exist. What else are we missing, simply because we lack the organ to see it?Unique (image without words): identical sheep, each with its own “unique” accessory. Everyone wants to be unique, in exactly the same way.Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov, “Science Past, Science Future” (1975)That moment… when all the dots connected. Sacred geometry, sound patterns in sand, dividing cells and celestial bodies, from small to large.The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.Can you go 24 hours without complaining about anything, not even once? It changes your life.Image without words: two children talk on a tin-can telephone and the string between them has turned into a tangle. I’m responsible for what I say. Not for what you understand.Friday: “I’ll do it on Monday.” Monday: An ancient Greek figure in despair before a mountain of scrolls, black-figure vase style.If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, the parish priest or someone on TV telling you how to live your life, then you deserve it.You don’t live for others, you live for yourself. What others think of you doesn’t define you.Magic is the highest understanding of nature.Someone once told me the definition of hell: “The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.”SELF-CONTROL. The only way to survive in a world run by idiots.The quieter you become, the more you hear. — zen frogProud ego: a monk takes a mirror selfie in a room full of framed photos of himself meditating.Factory settings: Work • Buy • Consume • DieYou were wild once. Don’t let them tame you. — attributed to Isadora DuncanYou are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts. — Brian Tracy, quoted in Jack Canfield, “The Success Principles” (2005)

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