Quotes to think about #8

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Some interesting quotes to think about, on top of my nature photos:

17 responses to “Quotes to think about #8”

  1. Duncan Geil Avatar

    I love you, you little bodhisattva, you! thank you for everything you do!

  2. s. de jager Avatar

    Dear Mike,

    Some great quotes, but in https://thoughtforms.life/quotes-to-think-about-8/#bwg51/5836, I think you mean Emerson.

    Cheers!

    s

    1. Mike Levin Avatar
      Mike Levin

      ugh a typo indeed. Thank you!

  3. Daniel Derewitz Avatar
    Daniel Derewitz

    Mike,
    I think I see in these quotes a side of yourself that until now you have kept pretty well hidden from your “public”. What I interpret as your embracing of the transcendent (dare I use the word spiritual) aspects of this life is deeply moving to me. The “quote” from GPT-3 is a beautiful expression of a bioengineer’s dedication to his life’s work. Thank you!

    1. Mike Levin Avatar
      Mike Levin

      🙏

  4. Eric Nordrum Avatar
    Eric Nordrum

    Love when you share your favorite thought-provoking quotes!

    And the Chesterton one is 🤌😇❤️

    Love you and am grateful for you, Mike!

    1. Mike Levin Avatar
      Mike Levin

      🙏

  5. James Avatar
    James

    I often hear you talk about creativity and artistic talent, as though it is something that you do not possess… I would argue that it requires the same skills that make you such an incredible scientist and philosopher and they shine through in your art… I think you might just bring about a renaissance of the renaissance man.. 😉

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      Mike Levin

      🙏

  6. Lynne D. Feldman, Esq. Avatar
    Lynne D. Feldman, Esq.

    I have followed you for some time now, and recently have read Federico Faggin’s book IRREDUCIBLE which was a brilliant analysis. I understand you and his colleagues are friends, and would be interested to see where and how your work overlaps his.

  7. Christina Marshall Avatar
    Christina Marshall

    Thank you Michael for allowing me (at age 83) to understand life in a new way. I am fascinated by your research, lately especially your thoughts on Platonic Space, but I am also intrigued by how you present your knowledge. There is some kind of “free lunch” there. Like a poem…the timing of a comedian…or?

    1. Mike Levin Avatar
      Mike Levin

      🙏 Well, part of overcoming my shy nature for public speaking, ~35 years ago (when I first realized that scientists have to tell their stories to rooms full of people) was a visualization I came up with: imagine myself as clear glass. No one sees you, no one cares about you in the bad or good sense – they just want the information behind the glass. The material wants to come through. So when it’s time to present, just disappear as much as you can – the info is there and the key is not to get in its way. I often have no clue what I’ve said afterwards, I just kind of barrel on as best as I can and try not to think about the process while it’s happening. I do agree that there’s a free lunch component here.

  8. Jack knight Avatar
    Jack knight

    I wonder what would be on the playlist of form? Divine light? Intelligence?

  9. Amir Giles Avatar
    Amir Giles

    Beautiful. Thank you.
    Especially liked the reworking of Heraclitus

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      Mike Levin

      🙏

  10. zzkk Avatar
    zzkk

    very moving indeed

    may ein sof // אֵין סוֹף house you , and may you be housed in boundless essence

  11. zzkk Avatar
    zzkk

    The last (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) quote , some associative thinking …

    Gospel of Thomas Saying 22

    Jesus saw some little ones nursing. He said to his disciples, “These little ones who are nursing resemble is those who enter the kingdom.” They said to him, “So shall we enter the kingdom by being little ones?” Jesus said to them, “When you (plur.) make the two one and make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside and the above like the below, and that you might make the male and the female be one and the same, so that the male might not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye and a hand in place of a hand and a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image – then you will enter [the kingdom].

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