Eric Gower

232 Posts

I'd much rather be an optimist and be wrong than be a pessimist and be right.

An extremely short note on ritual and its role in the current madness.

It's an ancient and utterly unoriginal thought, but it bears repeating anyway: the journey is the destination.

If something has been around for a long time and still in its original form, it is likely to be around for a lot longer.

Randomness and chaos will enter, as they always do. Let's expect them, and not resist when they do.

Lately I've been questioning what really drives all this hunger.

You've almost certainly spent today without encountering some terrifying form of chaos, in contrast with much of the world.

Be on your own side. It makes life so much easier, and better.

I've always liked this word, but in my later decades its importance to me has only grown.

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