Left Brain / Right Brain Knife Fight

The mathematics of emotion

I find myself in such a bad place at times, and I try to trace it back. Why did the sand slip away beneath me? My garden becomes a graveyard and though I know the world is skewed there is nothing I can do to change it. 

Except wait. In time the spring flowers bloom and I feel that familiar warmth. The pain of existence recedes and I regain access to love. Like a moth to flame I circle the light, giving myself over to it. 

I cry because the light is still shining. I cry because it’s so beautiful.

I try to remember the dark, but it fades in time. And like most history, it eventually repeats.

I’m a sucker for left-brain-right-brain-spacey-mathy illustrations.

(Source: taticarolina)

Daily Ponder 10/30: Mathematics

I am not a mathematician, but I am a mathematics enthusiast. Most things in life seem sort of rough-edged and chaotic. I just find it interesting that within this chaos nature holds these ultra-pure principles that we can intellectualize and build upon and construct crazy theories out of!

I’m not sure what part to be most surprised about. It is crazy enough that nature adheres to these mathematical and physical laws. All of these complex things happening, but happening according to a structured method. 

Or is it more unexpected that there would be beings studying this structure? First, the very fact that there is life at all is pretty awesome. But then even accepting that, I don’t think lizards understand calculus. Humans came about in this seemingly random way, and here we are distilling the underlying principles of the reality we are contained in.

This is all very surprising!