"The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine."

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Source : "Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 137, 1980.

Francisco Varela

#Organization Quotes #Unity Quotes #Machines Quotes

“Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love and its advice produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.”
“One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.”
“Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it.”
“As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.”
“We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.”
“I want to be in shape.”
“It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.”
“Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.”

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