Two-liners

1. The good moments in life are light, pleasant, a bit random,  and come without any need to process them.  They become memories which evoke gentle melancholy. 

4. History is both random and subject to over-determinations dictated by objective material realities.  So a random subjective  act  can only alter history at a particular and unique juncture, or, to put it more mystically, when the stars (conflicting over-determinations) align or collide.  

7. “If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution” (even if I am a terrible dancer). The self-appointed prophets of wrath, fire, and brimstone—the Savonarolas of the world—are always counter-revolutionary, no matter how fiercely they denounce corruption.

10: In-yun: Encounters can feel already known from countless past lives, that fleeting déjà vu at first meeting,  but it is the later choices that give those crossings their meaning.  Kismet: Encounters are serendipity with intention, unlikely paths briefly intersecting as if inevitable, asking us to surrender to life’s absurd choreography.

11. The pessimism of the intellect against the optimism of the will: an eternal struggle between the realm of the possible, burdened by its contradictions, and utopia, haunted by its fanatics.

15.  People exist independently in the minds of others. The way we are lived and  experienced in other people’s minds defines who we are—Unsettling but awesome.

18.  Sometimes all you have to do is to change perspective. Things then start floating in the gentle lightness of being.