…life and vegetables and travel and books can be summed up in two greek words. It's the central message of the philosopher Heraclitus. And he was always my favorite philosopher. But whenever I would read about him, he was called the crying philosopher. And…

…him, he was called the crying philosopher. And I had to live to be 44 years old to understand the poignancy of Heraclitus message. He said, in a nutshell, pantit rea, all flows. All flows. Nothing lasts. Nothing is permanent. And this is the hardest…

…it was worthwhile to talk to you about this tonight, because we have been through such a difficult ten months. And it was also Heraclitus, the all flows guy, who said, all is war, all is war. And what he meant was, everything occurs in the presence of…

…which. I don't know if you're like me, but my experience of these things is basically literary. I read Plotinus, I read Heraclitus, I read all this stuff, and I try to integrate it intellectually, but it is a plane of experience that is directly…

…this thing once again. I mean, the logos can be unleashed once again, and the voice that spoke to Plato and parmenides and Heraclitus, that voice can speak again in the minds of modern people. And when it does, the alienation will be ended because we…

…with equanimity, because all are ephemeral, all are in the very act of coming into existence, passing away. Pontit Rea Heraclitus said, all flows, everything is both simultaneously coming into existence and dissolving away to make room for something else.…

…it everywhere. We see it in the birth that I was just describing. We see it in the metamorphosis of insects. You know, Heraclitus said, pantit rea, all flows. And I think that this is the hardest thing to learn. It certainly has been the hardest thing…

…the vector at the end of time. They are an anticipation of who is waiting. And if, you know, the presocratic philosopher Heraclitus. The 52nd fragment of Heraclitus says, the aeon is a child at play with colored balls. This is it, folks. Heraclitus saw…

…of time. They are an anticipation of who is waiting. And if, you know, the presocratic philosopher Heraclitus. The 52nd fragment of Heraclitus says, the aeon is a child at play with colored balls. This is it, folks. Heraclitus saw the aeon. The aeon is…

…presocratic philosopher Heraclitus. The 52nd fragment of Heraclitus says, the aeon is a child at play with colored balls. This is it, folks. Heraclitus saw the aeon. The aeon is a child at play with colored balls. And it's the Pu erh at the end of time.…

…which I don't know if you're like me, but my experience of these things is basically literary. I read Plotinus, I read Heraclitus, I read all this stuff, and I try to integrate it intellectually, but it is a plane of experience that is directly…

…this thing once again. I mean, the logos can be unleashed once again, and the voice that spoke to Plato and Parmenides and Heraclitus, that voice can speak again in the minds of modern people. And when it does, the alienation will be ended because we…

…the world at that time were Romans, educated by Greeks, who were epicurean atomists, not Platonists, not followers of Heraclitus or Pythagoras or any of the flashy folks we're into. They were democracy anatomists. Rationalists. Materialists would have been…

…because there is no such thing thing as the restoration of initial conditions. You can never step into the same river twice, Heraclitus observed. If he'd been paying attention, he would have noticed that you can never step into the same river once. But…

…no such creature. You can never restore initial conditions. A way of putting it is you can never go home again. You know, Heraclitus said, we never step into the same river twice. If you're paying attention, you might notice that that means we never step…

…life and vegetables and travel and books can be summed up in two greek words. It's the central message of the philosopher Heraclitus. And he was always my favorite philosopher. But whenever I would read about him, he was called the crying philosopher. And…

…it was worthwhile to talk to you about this tonight because we have been through such a difficult ten months. And it was also Heraclitus, the all flows guy, who said, all is war, all is war. And what he meant was, everything occurs in the presence of…

…there are hints, but it by no means has the support of a broad river of tradition. For instance, the 56th fragment of Heraclitus, who's a great guy. I mean, Heraclitus was one of us. He'd be comfortable with this situation, I'm sure. The 56th fragment…

…has the support of a broad river of tradition. For instance, the 56th fragment of Heraclitus, who's a great guy. I mean, Heraclitus was one of us. He'd be comfortable with this situation, I'm sure. The 56th fragment of Heraclitus says the aeon. The aeon…

…who's a great guy. I mean, Heraclitus was one of us. He'd be comfortable with this situation, I'm sure. The 56th fragment of Heraclitus says the aeon. The aeon is a child at play with colored balls. The saying is 2600 years old. What is it talking…

…personality. Because what this simple truth says, things come into being, they achieve their inflorescence and they fade away, is, as Heraclitus put it, pantetre. All flows, nothing lasts, nothing is saved. And this is, you know, our glory and our agony…

…your fears, not your hopes, not even yourself. Nothing lasts. This has been said often, but felt a rarely. You know, Heraclitus said, pantoth rea, all flows. And the lie of western psychology is that something is stable. God's nature, the equinoctial…

…it everywhere. We see it in the birth that I was just describing. We see it in the metamorphosis of insects. You know, Heraclitus said, pantit rea, all flows. And I think that this is the. The hardest thing to learn. It certainly has been the hardest…

…and this is the message of the time wave, and this is the message of your life and my life. It's that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said, it pant, it all flows. Nothing lasts, you know, not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night,…

…The magical object, the talking stick, the jeweled, self revealing basketballs of the DMT state. You know, in the 53rd fragment of Heraclitus, he says, the aeon is a child at play with colored balls in eternity. And, you know, this makes no sense until…

…places in our cultural canon like quantum physics and chaos mathematics places which are very like early greek philosophy, I mean, Heraclitus speaks for chaos and I suppose parmenides or thales speaks for some of these other points of view. Quantum physics,…

…of initial conditions. That means you can go back to the start and run the experiment again. This is saying, as Heraclitus said, you never step into the same river twice. And consequently, the idea of repetitive experiment is shown to be intellectually…