Squibs

Organized religion is just a system for journeying into transcendence. God (if one exists) is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew.

Bucky Fuller: God is recognizable as the passion drive for the comprehension of all the interconnections of all experiences.

"Everything that constitutes science is unteachable." (I had to think hard about the last two.)

It is such a strange fact that there exists nothing resembling a "cure" for obesity. Only a tiny, tiny percentage of all people who lose a significant amount of weight are able to keep it off. Think of the billions of dollars already spent on weight loss (wiki puts it at $33 - $55B annually), and how much more would be spent if there were an effective medical or even cognitive therapy. Yet still no effective treatment? Either there is something devilishly difficult about obesity (and possibly other behavioral problems), or capitalism does not work as well as I thought. (Not that other systems work better.)

Elizabeth Gilbert paraphrased: I refuse to burden another person with the obligation of completing me. That doesn't mean my partner is off the hook; it doesn't mean he has no obligations. It means I own my incompletions.

"I write in order to find out how I feel about things."

Bucky Fuller again: All the great religious and political systems have concluded and decreed that "nobody should make mistakes". It is only by mistakes that we can learn. Our present anti-mistake-making laws and customs tend to frustrate our further growth. Humanity is taught to play the game by rules and not by thinking.

"Learning and knowledge are not sold in the same place."