May 2012
6 posts
workman's tumblr: daxxxx:“Nature loves courage.... →
workman:
daxxxx:
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who…
“somewhere between a wound and a jewel”
– Lewis Crofts referencing Egon Schiele’s paintings (via descroissants)
“There are some fairly old philosophical issues about what confers identity and...”
– Essentialism | Conversation | Edge (via wildcat2030)
“The beauty of a woman is only skin-deep. If men could only see what is beneath...”
– Abbot Odo of Cluny, 10th Century, as found in Marina Warner’s Phantasmagoria (via rudimentarylabia)
April 2012
1 post
“At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that...”
– Robert A. Heinlein (via snowce)
March 2012
6 posts
“We view films in the context of darkness. We sit in darkness and watch an...”
– Dorsky, Nathaniel. Devotional Cinema, 2005. (via kateslininger)
1 tag
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
– Albert Einstein (via missfolly)
“Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Ultra Manifesto (via dsthomas)
February 2012
3 posts
“A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time...”
– Albert Einstein (via bloodisthenewblackk)
“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (1873)
“Interacting with other people does not come naturally to me; it is a strain and...”
– Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (via bloodisthenewblackk)
January 2012
1 post
janitoroflunacy:
smells like teen spurt
December 2011
3 posts
“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your...”
– Terence McKenna (via turtlezepp)
“I was sitting on the seashore, half listening to a friend arguing violently...”
– Aldous Huxley (via terramantra)
“If you’re going to go your own way, don’t expect anyone to come with you. If you...”
– Henry Rollins (via nathanielstuart)
November 2011
3 posts
“The flower goes on spreading it’s fragrance whether anybody comes or not,...”
– Osho (via thirdw0rld)
“Art is “high play” and only through high play does real learning...”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce
via Eggie Bop
October 2011
8 posts
“Everything must have been once. That’s why life seems to me like a ghostly...”
– E.M. Cioran, Tears and Saints (via touba)
1 tag
“Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of...”
– H.P. Lovecraft (luminousinsect)
“we’re not obliged to accept the world’s definitions….It’s part of a societal...”
– James Baldwin - http://vimeo.com/7365652 (via simhanada)
“If the children are not initiated into the village they will burn it down just...”
– African Proverb (via highandrising)
2 tags
“If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity.”
– ~ Loretta Staples (via bareblu)
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“…These accounts can be found in rather unexpected places, particularly in the...”
– Paul Verhaeghe (via circulationwithinmyskull)
September 2011
4 posts
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3 tags
“Your life,is your life
Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission
Be on the...”
– -Charles Bukowski (via hip-)
June 2011
4 posts
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon →
mitochondria:
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon occurs when a person, after having learned some (usually obscure) fact, word, phrase, or other item for the first time, encounters that item again, perhaps several times, shortly after having learned it.
There are several theories about the psychological explanation of the phenomenon, including a popular one that cites its primary cause as being...
flashover
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the moment a conversation becomes real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust crosses the room and jolts the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional charge you’ve built up through decades of friction with the world.
“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American lecturer, essayist and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century via amiquote (via arsvitaest)
May 2011
1 post
“There is a logic [to my reading], but I can’t define it. I like reading...”
– Aleksandar Hemon (via aperfectcommotion)
March 2011
4 posts
1 tag
“1. The reality, external to the true idea;
2. The critic, reader, or...”
– William James
December 2010
1 post
“All my epic gifts were always from Jesus…”
– Former child of radical christians, on Christmas
October 2010
1 post
“A Sufi is just the opposite of a philosopher. A Sufi is one who is not concerned...”
– Osho (via oceanofmind)
September 2010
5 posts
“When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, when we escape like squirrels...”
– D.H. Lawerence (via oceanofmind)
ofotherspaces:
“Alienation at its most essential level is not poverty or unemployment. It is the inability to imagine your society and therefore to imagine yourself in it.”
Protège-moi.
lionne:
Sommes nous les jouets du destin Souviens toi des moments divins Planants, éclatés au matin Et maintenant nous sommes tout seuls Perdus les rêves de s’aimer Le temps où on avait rien fait Il nous reste toute une vie pour pleurer Et maintenant nous sommes tout seuls
