Interesting meeting today at my local Quaker meeting house. I was contemplating mindfullness in response to someones thoughts on being in the present moment, and my struggles doing just that.

My favorite Terry Pratchett quote (and my fedi-header) came to my mind:
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has got there first, and is waiting for it".
Today I saw this quote from a new point of view. Wherever we look ahead, we see war, violence and hatred there. TV's showing bad things in every corner of the world, and a dark future wherever we look.
But instead, we should pull back and focus on where we are now, and look to being in the light, and not think of the darkness ahead.

I think Sir PTerry was maybe even wiser than I already thought, and I already had him rated v highly.

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Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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#GNUTerryPratchett Got a shout out today on #Radio4's "You're Dead To Me"(A comedy history series I’d recommend) referencing the #DiscWorld book #InterestingTimes and its references to the #RoundWorld Terracotta Army.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cshgzq

PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES *DO* PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED 'LIVING'.

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

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RE: https://toot.community/@blackwaterborn/116301239248308453

So it seems #GNUTerryPratchett should have got the Nobel Hat-trick

Obviously the Boots essay should have got the echognomics(If i have my Trob translation right😜 ) one.

The quoted post below by Drew shows he should have had the physics one.

And of course some of us more fanatical fans have also accused him of literature on occasions.

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Azhural raised his staff. "It's fifteen hundred miles to Ankh-Morpork," he said. "We've got three hundred and sixty-three elephants, fifty carts of forage, the monsoon's about to break and we're wearing... we're wearing... sort of things, like glass, only dark... dark glass things on our eyes..."

Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

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I just realised that I can sum up my philosophy on behaviour by paraphrasing Granny Weatherwax:

Don't treat people as things.

It's that simple.

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I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* TURN UP ONLY ONCE.

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

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Perdita thought that not obeying rules was somehow *cool*. Agnes thought that rules like "Don't fall into this huge pit of spikes" were there for a purpose.

Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

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