Consciousness is not a thing, but a process of inference —Karl Friston

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we will wear
new bones again.
we will leave
these rainy days,
break out through
another mouth
into sun and honey time. 

worlds buzz over us like bees,
we be splendid in new bones.
other people think they know
how long life is.
how strong life is.
we know.


—lucille clifton
new bones

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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.


—Kahlil Gibran

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wait - what ?

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