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+title: Collected Quotes
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+# Collected Quotes
+
+Quotes that resonated, organized by theme.
+
+## Consciousness & Spirituality
+
+> "The Next Buddha will be a Sangha."
+> — Thich Nhat Hanh
+
+The idea that enlightenment in this age is collective, not individual. Connects to Jacob's interest in collaborative knowledge systems and the [[Bodhisattva Vow AI]] project.
+
+> "Well beings obtain the absolute freedom of consciousness that is our birthright."
+
+From a contemplative text. The framing of consciousness as birthright rather than achievement.
+
+> "The longest distance in the universe is from the mind to the heart."
+
+A restatement of a classic insight. The gap between knowing and feeling.
+
+> "The qi never stops."
+
+From qigong practice. Related to Mantak Chia's [[books|Inner Structure of Tai Chi]].
+
+## Kindness & Character
+
+> "I believe in kindness. Also in mischief."
+> — Mary Oliver
+
+Two words that capture a whole philosophy.
+
+> "The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths."
+> — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
+
+## Creativity
+
+> "Creativity is intelligence having fun."
+
+Often attributed to Einstein (likely apocryphal). The point stands.
+
+## Power & Politics
+
+> "The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior righteous indignation — this is the height of psychological luxury."
+> — George Orwell (via Anna Reidl)
+
+## Literature
+
+> "You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife, and — would it were not so — you are my mother."
+> — Shakespeare, *Hamlet* (Act III, Scene iv)
+
+Hamlet to Gertrude. The whole tragedy in one sentence.
+
+## Science Fiction
+
+> "They were experiencing what no human had ever known before, a sensory bandwidth thousands of times normal. For seconds that seemed without end, their minds were filled with a jumble verging on pain, data that was not information and information that was not knowledge."
+
+The information-knowledge gap, stated through fiction. Relevant to the LLM wiki pattern: the wiki is the step from information to knowledge.
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