Resonance from Weekend Reads

You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great. — Conversations with Maya Angelou

On tension between reason and silence required for thinking — an excerpt from Gibran’s —

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;
And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.
And in much of your talking, your thinking is half murdered.
For thought is a bird of space, that in a case of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.
The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.
And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.
And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. — Love the roles that rationality AND intuition play — French mathematician Henri Poincaré

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It’s part of our DNA. That’s why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things — Adrian, The Cold Cold Ground

Most geniuses — especially those who lead others — prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities. — Andy Benoit