Quotes
Ray
"The culture of adaptation creates a life trajectory, in which what they want is contrary to what life needs. Remembering yourself as the one whose future is always in question, in doubt and open, you know where youthful energy lives, and I think it starts to feel as though gravity is pulling for you, making things roll toward you - that is, things indicate where they need to go, so it isn’t necessary to plan, instead, to keep perceiving the possibilities as they open up better generalities.“ - Ray Peat
“Well, if I could help just one more person, that makes it worth it” - Ray Peat
“Nothing is stored. It’s like the pasts are all present in the same room and we periodically have a different perspective on them. When the present balance of stuff, toxicants, euphoriants, etc, is good, you can think and feel what you want to about things.” - Ray Peat
What could be more important to understand than biological energy? growth, movement, every philosophical and practical issue involves the nature of biological energy. - Ray Peat[1]
William Blake
"As the true method of knowledge is experiment, the true faculty of knowing must be the faculty which experiences." - William Blake
"In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors." - William Blake
“But the philosophy of Causes & Consequences misled Lavater as it has all his Contemporaries. Each thing is its own cause & its own effect.” - William Blake
Not Ray
"When a system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order." - Ilya Prigogine
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought." - Albert Szent-Györgyi
"They [animals] regard man as their God, that is why man should love them, because they are not looking forward to another Paradise." - St. Paisios
"Coffee keeps, so to say, the balance between bodily and spiritual nourishment." - Emile Souvestre
