#cam

I came into the unknown and stayed there unknowing rising beyond all science. I did not know the door but when I found the way, unknowing where I was, I learned enormous things, but what I felt I cannot say, for I remained unknowing, rising beyond all science. It was the perfect realm of holiness and peace. In deepest solitude I found the narrow way: a secret giving such release that I was stunned and stammering, rising beyond all science. I was so far inside, so dazed and far away my senses were released from feelings of my own. My mind had found a surer way: a knowledge of unknowing, rising beyond all science. And he who does arrive collapses as in sleep, for all he knew before now seems a lowly thing, and so his knowledge grows so deep that he remains unknowing, rising beyond all science. The higher he ascends the darker is the wood; it is the shadowy cloud that clarified the night, and so the one who understood remains always unknowing, rising beyond all science. This knowledge by unknowing is such a soaring force that scholars argue long but never leave the ground. Their knowledge always fails the source: to understand unknowing, rising beyond all science. This knowledge is supreme crossing a blazing height; though formal reason tries it crumbles in the dark, but one who would control the night by knowledge of unknowing will rise beyond all science. And if you wish to hear: the highest science leads to an ecstatic feeling of the most holy Being; and from his mercy comes his deed: to let us stay unknowing, rising beyond all science. ↗

— Juan de la Cruz

#occam-rolls-in-his-grave #wu-wei #science

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep ↗

— Albert Camus

#lecture #philosophy #sleep #sleep

A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#debate #ineptitude #malice #norman-g-finkelstein #smear-campaigns

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#crisis #depression #despite #essentially #federal

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps. ↗

— Francis Biddle

#america #camps #catching #concentration #every

I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#bell #came #door #down #forgotten

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#jackson #lexington #man #religious #religious man

We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house! ↗

— Nick Lachey

#cameras #house #live #our #world

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#awful #came #collective #going #i

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#being #bush #clear #decades #envied