Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
Interpretation
Disasters can occur without drawing attention while their impacts remain unrecognized.
This quote reflects on the idea that significant events or disasters may happen without any witnesses, leaving no record or narrative to convey their impact. It suggests that some adversities are overlooked or go unnoticed, yet they can be profound in their consequences, urging us to consider the unseen struggles in life.
In practice
In a speech about mental health, one might use this quote to highlight unseen struggles.
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
All the Dachaus must remain standing.
I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions.
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