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" I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty. "

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" The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot. "

" Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever? "

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" Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level. "

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" Bohm's 'ontological interpretation' was so called because of the bad rap the word 'ontology' has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down. "

" A job letter, an interview - even a writing sample - have far less to do with intellect and far more to do with aesthetics than you think. "

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" It's easier to be the art school band than to be the Beatles. "

" Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril. "

" I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world. "

" An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are - I think time is a sort of liquid that pours out of hatpins, underground trains, salt crystals. So a work of art is also listening to itself, because what it is never quite coincides with how it appears, too. "

" I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality. "

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" The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else. "

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" Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview. "

" I used to keep a folder with all my rejection letters in it - a few years into having a job, I burned it. "

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" There is no essence, but there is a flux that is more real than any instance of the flux, such as a milk bottle or a tiger. "

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" We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences. "

" Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential. "