18 May Mark Twain* 2
"It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." *Misattributed to Mark Twain but not inconsistent with Twain's insights generally....
18 Apr Koan 211
"We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are." -- Anais Nin We don't see things as they are, we only see light reflecting off things. Light is 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum. Things look quite different when viewed from other parts of the spectrum (e.g., X-Rays). Our eyes see the reflections. Our mind reflects on the reflections. Our mind's reflections are a function of definitions and stories we've created about what we see....