What Passes For Wisdom Around Here

 People incapable of faith more often find refuge in certainty than doubt.

Sometimes the faith to believe in a miracle comes easier than the gullibility to believe in the rational explanation.

Everyday life for a mortal being is mostly about doing things today that won't matter tomorrow, therein accounting for their urgency.

Generally speaking, the more you learn of how the world works, the less you blame yourself.

Most happiness, like most worry, depends pretty much on how small a thing you can make important.

Me, Myself and You

 The most life-changing "what if" we ever ask is, "What if it isn't all about me?"

The trouble with caring only about yourself is that it's always the first step to not caring about anyone. 

What you discover about self-love is that it doesn't last, and it's the devil to go your separate ways.

Today's Deep Thought:  "A miracle is something without which whatever happened would have taken a miracle."

In Every Moment That You Share

We shared a vow to love forever.

Now life's a fading afternoon,

And bent with age I fear "forever"

Was always just some whistled tune.

But then I feel your glance upon me,

And in your eyes that light sublime,

And, lo, I realize, "forever"

Had never anything to do with time.

For when a love's a boundless loving,

And when with heart and soul you've cared

Then truly have you loved "'forever"

In every moment that you've shared.   

Tender Subjects

 I asked, "How can anyone who really knows me ever love me?" only to discover that it was the only way anyone ever would.

"It's not easy -- loving someone through the chinks in their armor -- especially when the love they return is so often trapped inside."

"To truly know someone is to know the thing they never speak of -- and to recognize the silences that speak of it."

It Seems Backwards

 It seems backwards.  In the callowness of our youth, we are asked to decide on education, career, marriage and parenthood.  In the experience of our old age, we are asked to decide on what to have for lunch.

Fate vs Free Will

How do I reconcile Fate and Free Will?  Well, here's an attempt.

At birth we are given a jigsaw puzzle with a picture on the box.  We are not required to construct that picture.  We are just required to use the pieces in the box.

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Six Thoughts In Addition To The Previous Ten

Genius is the ability to do what no one thought possible, and to do it in a way that can clearly be improved upon.

One thing you can learn from your dog is when to go lie under the dining room table and await developments. 

You'll know that AI has completely replicated human intelligence when it forms a Flat Earth Society. 

If Time were to pause, say for ten minutes, how exactly would it know when to start up again?

Never act for "a whole list of reasons."  Rarely does a compelling reason occur as part of a list.

It is perhaps fortunate that the intelligence it takes to be a human being is not a requirement for admittance into the species.