Sarahnkwok's List: Interesting/fascinating

• unquenchable yearning to experience nature's elegant truths and her exquisite interrelationships
• Imagination is the factory that makes legends. It is the beginning of all achievement. To imagine is to perceive many potential futures, select the most delightful possibility, and then pull the present forward to meet it. Imagination has transported us from shivering in dark caves to triumphantly floating above our precious blue earth. It reminds us that reality is malleable and we are the architects of our own fate.
• Beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else.
• To seek beauty is to have the willingness, the inclination, and the impetuous desire for this chance encounter to transpire.
• Our experience of reality is created by our perception of it
• immensity of perception
• collective mind.
• realtime feedback
• "The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
• Sharing is the mechanism that propels culture forward. Cultural evolution, like its biological counterpart, is driven by random mutation. This process of recombination, iteration, and sharing enables the stickiest ideas to survive. When we share, it is as though the global imagination is breathing.  To inhale is to be nourished by inspiration—to exhale is to evoke it.
• Each of us is a pattern within a larger social metapattern, and we each have a unique vantage point from which we view our world.
• Life is like a blank canvas. Meaning is the paint you throw on that canvas. Life exists in individual moments and it's up to us to make sure those moments are vital, interconnected, and vast. A life that can contribute to the collective social experience is a life that's nurturing and meaningful. Each of us has meaning, and we bring it to life. What is the point? Perhaps it's not necessary to ask that question when you yourself are the answer.

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• Yeti Lobster

   

  

   

   

  The Kiwa Hirsuta, more commonly known as Yeti Lobster, was discovered in March 2005 in the South Pacific Ocean. The crustacean is covered in silky blond setae that resembles fur and is thought to be blind because of the lack of pigment in its eyes. The hairy pincers are used to detoxify the poisonous minerals in the water where it lives.

• Long-Nosed Monkey