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.
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
Through repentance the filth of our foul actions is washed away. After this, we participate in the Holy Spirit, not automatically, but according to the faith, humility and inner disposition of the repentance in which our soul is engaged. For this reason it is good to repent each day as the act of repentance is unending.
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