Settings
What else should our lives be but a series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
David Malouf
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Journey
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head, To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired.”
Shakespeare, in the opening of Sonnet 27
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Boredom
My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It’s very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest.
My next favorite is coffee. I usually keep a pot plugged in while working on the machine.
If these don’t work it may mean deeper Quality problems are bothering you and distracting you from what’s before you. The boredom is a signal that you should turn your attention to these problems.
Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) by Robert Pirsig
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Synonyms
Thought: concept, cogitation, consideration, deliberation, estimation, idea, imagination, reflection, consideration, speculation, supposition.
Think: ponder; muse; cogitate, deliberate, esteem, imagine, reason, reflect, seriously consider; speculate, suppose.
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Ground Pattern
There are depths in man that go the length of lowest Hell, as there are heights that reach highest Heaven – for are not both Heaven and Hell made out of him, made by him, everlasting Miracle and Mystery as he is?
-Thomas Carlyle
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Writers Block
Axiomatic Erosion is the reality of how all formal systems of knowledge, measurement, and understanding inevitably break down into a paradox at sufficient levels of observation.
This means that no formal systems may ever be absolutely defined.
They will always run into an “infinite wall”, or some form of incomplete expression.