#possibility

[thirdity]

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

#necessity #possibility #change #progress #time #values #meaning #humanity #quotes #Carson #Rachel Carson #Silent Spring

[philosophybits]

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

#philosophy #quotes #Bertrand Russell #The Problems of Philosophy #questions #answers #possibility #imagination #certainty #uncertainty #awareness #self #world

[thepersonalquotes]

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

#T.S. Eliot #thepersonalquotes #Courageous #Success #Happy #Leadership #Business #finding #going #possibility #possible #risk #quotes #literature #lit #prose #life quotes

[dk-thrive]

I have refused to live locked in the orderly house of reasons and proofs. The world I live in and believe in is wider than that. And anyway, what's wrong with Maybe? You wouldn't believe what once or twice I have seen. I'll just tell you this: only if there are angels in your head will you ever, possible see one.

— Mary Oliver, "The World I Live In" from "Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver" (Penguin Press, October 10, 2017)

#Mary Oliver #possibility #maybe #angels

[this-is-cool]

A superb series of sci-fi themed artworks entitled ‘Possibility’ by SiChen Wang - https://www.this-is-cool.co.uk/series-of-sci-fi-works-entitled-possibility-by-sichen-wang/

#SiChen Wang #Possibility #sci-fi art #sci-fi artist #science fiction art #science fiction artist #concept art #concept artist #this-is-cool #scififantasyhorror #sci-fi project

[nerdyautumnlover]

#too relatable #relatable memes #twilight #possibility

[twiedits]

"Lykke Li - Possibility"

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#twilight #bella swan #the twilight saga #vivis #headers #twilight headers #bella swan headers #no psd #possibility #lykke li #crepusculo #crepusculo headers #twilight header #new moon headers #new moon #kristen stewart icon #kristen stewart

[toexistwithin]

#possibility #liminalspace #mysterious #echoes of laughter

[savagechickens]

Overthinking.

And other decisions.

#overthinking #thinking #decision #decision-making #life #uncertainty #overwhelmed #possibility

[serenityquest]

#possibility #patience #hold on #hope

[thirdity]

The unknown awaits us, but I feel that this unknown is a totalization and will be the true humanization for which we longed. Am I speaking of death? no, of life. It is not a state of happiness, it is a state of contact.

Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H.

#uncertainty #possibility #necessity #life #happiness #experience #quotes #Lispector #Clarice Lispector #The Passion According to G. H.

[philosophybits]

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long is he determined not to do it: and consequently, so long it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

#philosophy #quotes #Baruch Spinoza #Ethics #possibility #choices #actions #ethics

[thepersonalquotes]

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

#T.S. Eliot #thepersonalquotes #Courageous #Success #Happy #Leadership #Business #finding #going #possibility #possible #risk #quotes #literature #lit #prose #life quotes

[neweresth]

Patience.

#turtle #possibility #space #depth #digitalart #illustration #neweresth

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

#newbeginnings #freshstarts #change #transformation #growth #journey #selfdiscovery #personaldevelopment #inspiration #motivation #hope #possibility #art

[lynxmuse]

Mindfulness Moment

It may be surprising to be able to pull a powerful philosophical moment/insight from within a Marvel movie… but it’s awesome that this was the level of care and intent brought to the writing here!  (Spoiler warning for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3)

“There are the hands that made us, and then there are the hands that guide the hands.

My Beloved Racoon.  The story’s been yours all along, you just didn’t know it.”

– Lylla

This is such a powerful and moving inflection point for Rocket.   Until this moment of luminosity, he was allowing himself to be defined by the High Evolutionary.  His whole life, his whole existence, his very sense of self, all of it was being hemmed in by what the HE had said (and done).

More than said, really… for the young Rocket, it was what the HE had decreed.  Right before Lylla provides him with this key, Rocket even protests the notion that he could have any purpose in life other than what the HE had declared.  The H.E. stated X, that was the truth, and Rocket could, therefore, be no more than that.

But in the space she created by granting Rocket absolution for her (and Teefs and Floor’s death), Lylla provides Rocket with the true key that releases him from his cage.  In Rocket’s past there is tragedy.   There is pain.  And there is callous cruelty by his caretaker.  But he doesn’t need to be defined by that.  He doesn’t need to be defined by the HE, or the HE’s intentions, or the HE’s actions.  He doesn’t need to be defined by any of that.

It is his story.  He gets to write it.  He gets to choose.

In that moment, Rocket gains freedom.  Freedom to let go of the guilt he’s been carrying, freedom from the constraints he let the past and the HE impose on him, and, ultimately, the freedom to be.  And with that he may move forward into the future, creating as he goes, and free once more to express the authentic love and heart he has for others.

*   As I mentioned before, it’s also a great culmination of Rocket’s arc told throughout his MCU appearances.

** I’ve seen some chatter that poo pooed Lyla’s second line about it being Rocket’s story as some sort of smirking hint by the director on how all the movies have really been about Rocket (and not Quill, etc).   Which, on a secondary level, it might well be.  But I think it erroneous to divorce it from the whole of Lyla’s dialogue and not see it as a continuation of the hands line that comes before it.

#mindfulness #philosophy #ontology #possibility #marvel #guardians of the galaxy #rocket raccoon #lylla #gotg vol 3