Dinesh's photos with the keyword: United States

No metaphor, remember, can express A real historical unhappiness; Your tears have value if they make us gay; O Happy Grief! And all sad verse can say. ~ Auden en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden

"Laughter is brightest, in the place where the food is." - Irish proverb "A Zen blessing at mealtime: "In this plate of food, I see the entire universe supporting my existence." "Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork." - English Proverb

Internal and external reality exist on a continuum. What happens and how you understand it to have happened and how you respond to it’s happening are usually linked, but no one is predictive of others. If reality itself is often a relative thing, and the self is n a state of permanent flux, the passage from slight mood to extreme mood is a glissando. Illness, the, is an extreme state of emotion, and one might reasonably describe emotion as a mile form of illness. If we all felt up and great (but not delusionally manic) all the time, we could get more done and might have a happier time on earth, but that idea is creepy and terrifying (though, of course, if we felt up and great all the time we might forget all about creepiness and terror).

One day a student asked Taiga, “What is the most difficult part of painting?” Taiga answered, “The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult.” ~ Zen Proverb

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass -- which is better than trying to fill them ~ E. M. Cioran

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The amazing efficiency of our reading process only serves to thicken the mystery surrounding its origins. How can our brain be so well adapted to a problem for which it could not possibly have evolved? How can the brain architecture of a strange bipedal primate turned hunter-gatherer have adjusted so perfectly, and in only a few thousand years, to to the challenges of visual word recognition? To clarify this problem, we will now turn to the cerebral circuits for reading. An amazing recent discovery shows that there is a specific cortical area for written words, much like the primary auditory area or the motor cortex that exist in all our brains. Even more surprisingly perhaps, this reading area seems to be identical in readers of English, Japanese, and Italian. Does this mean that there are universal brain mechanisms for reading?

“Character is what we do when no one is looking” ~ Anonymous ~ 302 “But we are not here concerned with hopes and fears,” wrote Darwin, at the end of ‘The Descent of Man”, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it . . . We must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most dabased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system -- with all these exalted powers -- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. ~ Page 304

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"What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?" - Bertolt Brecht

A street where Einstein walked!