"The culture of adaptation creates a life trajectory, in which what they want is contrary to what life needs. Remembering yourself as the one whose future is always in question, in doubt and open, you know where youthful energy lives, and I think it starts to feel as though gravity is pulling for you, making things roll toward you - that is, things indicate where they need to go, so it isn’t necessary to plan, instead, to keep perceiving the possibilities as they open up better generalities.“ - Ray Peat
“Well, if I could help just one more person, that makes it worth it” - Ray Peat
“Nothing is stored. It’s like the pasts are all present in the same room and we periodically have a different perspective on them. When the present balance of stuff, toxicants, euphoriants, etc, is good, you can think and feel what you want to about things.” - Ray Peat
What could be more important to understand than biological energy? growth, movement, every philosophical and practical issue involves the nature of biological energy. - Ray Peat[1]
“When the metabolic rate is high, time seems to slow down, because the density of experience is greater." - Ray Peat
"To change someone's mind, it's necessary to change the way they experience themselves and the world, and that requires changing their substance."
"It's important that people start talking about the possible choices we have. If we accept that 'the choice' is between being unemployed and having a job, the job we get is not likely to be what we want to do with our lives. And 'status' isn't what I'm talking about. Giving maximum meaning to our lives should be one of the basic things that we demand of our work."
"As the true method of knowledge is experiment, the true faculty of knowing must be the faculty which experiences." - William Blake
"In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors." - William Blake
“But the philosophy of Causes & Consequences misled Lavater as it has all his Contemporaries. Each thing is its own cause & its own effect.” - William Blake
"Eternity He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise." - William Blake
“Energy is Eternal Delight.”
"He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence"
"When a system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order." - Ilya Prigogine
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought." - Albert Szent-Györgyi
"They [animals] regard man as their God, that is why man should love them, because they are not looking forward to another Paradise." - St. Paisios
"Coffee keeps, so to say, the balance between bodily and spiritual nourishment." - Emile Souvestre
“I don’t fight for things which I don’t win.” - Selye
"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it" - Soren Kierkegaard
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.” - Friedrich Nietzsche