“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

The Nature of Existence - Original Trailer

Fantastic movie, its on Netflix.

A change in the weather 
is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel Proust

Tao Te Ching                72
 
When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.

Do not intrude in their homes.
Do not harrass them at work.
If you do not interfere, they will not weary of you.

Therefore the sage knows himself but makes no show,
Has self-respect but is not arrogant.
He lets go of that and chooses this.

The creation of a black hole is the creation of a new universe.

This is something that I have believed in for quite some time, it just makes sense when you look at it from a physics stand point.

A black hole by definition resides within a singularity, a thing which is cut off from EVERYTHING else, that little bit breaks off from our reality and starts a new one.

The new reality grows from matter being sucked into the singularity, the connection eventually fades as black hole don't last forever.

Michio Kaku Explains String Theory

Genius

From the Tao Te Ching

18

When the great Tao is forgotten,
Kindness and morality arise.
When wisdom and intelligence are born,
The great pretence begins.

When there is no peace within the family,
Filial piety and devotion arise.
When the country is confused and in chaos,
Loyal ministers appear.

Alan Watts: YHWH - "I AM THAT I AM"

Polarity

If I were to have both a good attitude at times

and also a bad one at other times

am I not still ME at ALL times?

Or am I one person,

another person,

or just ONE complex being?

This is just like the cat in the box (in physics) being both alive and dead until observed. Positive and negative are perspective, so reality is more complex and subtle than just black and white.

Schrödinger's cat

-EB

Events

“…Sayings have a source,

events have a leader...”

From the Tao Te Ching

FLOW

From the Tao Te Ching

Return is the movement of the way;

yielding is the function of the Way.

All things in the world are born of being;

being is born of non-being

“The day when we shall know exactly what “electricity” is, will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.”

Nikola Tesla

Underestimating

From the Tao Te Ching

“...No calamity is greater than underestimating opponents. If you underestimate opponents, you're close to losing your treasure...”

People's starvation

From the Tao Te Ching

When people are starving, it is because their governments take too much,
causing them to starve.
When people are hard to control,
It is because of the contrivances of their governments,
which make them hard to control.
When people slight death,
it is because of the earnestness with which they seek life;
that makes them slight death.
Only those who do not contrive to live are wise in valuing life.

Good Warriors (Tao Te Ching)

Good warriors do not arm,
good fighters don't get mad,
good winners don't contend,
good employers serve their workers.
This is called the virtue
of non-contention:
this is called mating with
the supremely natural and pristine.

the cycle

From the Tao Te Ching

Return is the movement of the way;

yielding is the function of the Way.

All things in the world are born of being;

being is born of non-being

When the world has the Way.

From the Tao Te Ching

When the world has the Way,

running horses are retired to till the fields.

When the world lacks the Way,

war-horses are bred in the countryside.

No crime is greater than approving of greed;

no calamity is greater than discontent,

no fault is greater than possessiveness.

So the satisfaction of contentment is always enough.