Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Interpretation
Avoid making important decisions when you are tired and less alert.
This quote emphasizes the importance of mental clarity and the appropriate timing when addressing serious issues. Philip K. Dick suggests that the late hours of the night often lead to fatigue and diminished judgment, which can result in hasty decisions that might not hold up when thought through in a more clear-headed state.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a discussion about decision making in leadership.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.
Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.
A mind too active is no mind at all.
Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees but while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us. Selfless acts of service and consecration refine our spirits remove the scales from our spiritual eyes and open the windows of heaven. By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer we often find the answer to our own.
When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.
The source of all abundance is not outside of you. It's a part of who you are.
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