Sense

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets (Little Gidding)

(a quote that’s stayed with me
my reflections in the comments.)

CS Grad |Cognitive Science| Tech, Design & Art.
"Computers don't have taste" – but I do

i keep coming back to this quote because i believe it captures our whole experience here. we search for ourselves outside ourselves in experiences, in goals, in other people.... life has a way of unfolding so precisely that you’re forced to step outside, almost like it’s saying: go see what you’re made of. and here’s the thing.. once you change on the inside, the outside never looks the same. the people, the places, even the silence... they feel different. and that’s what eliot meant, i think. we return to where we started and know the place for the first time. because we’ve become someone who can finally see it. — alucard

and on the topic of knowing what you're made of i don't believe anyone has ever truly known what they were made of. they’ve always been better.

cos it's powerful and real
and it's been true in my experience