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)
6 tags
5 tags
“…These accounts can be found in rather unexpected places, particularly in the...”
– Paul Verhaeghe (via circulationwithinmyskull)
September 2011
4 posts
1 tag
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
“The ancients knew how to die. Contempt for death was born with them. But their...”
– Emilie M. Cioran (Tears and Saints)
August 2010
4 posts
“I don’t trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy...”
– Vincent Gallo (via horrorandglamour, laurencephilomene) (via watchureyes)
“Now, if we see the truth of that - that the thinker is thought, that there is no...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti, Paris, 2nd Public Talk, 16th April 1950 , Collected Works (via lucyphermann)
A Lucy Nation: it is the thought which creates the... →
Pursue a thought completely, go through with it to the end, think it out fully, and you will see what happens. You will find that there is no thinker at all, because it is the thought which creates the thinker. Therefore, there are not two states as the thinker and the thought. The thinker is a…
“Your head’s like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and...”
– Tom O’Bedlam, The Invisibles (as written by Grant Morrison) (via newdawnfades) (via luminousinsect) (via satansjugend) (via otiumlongum)
July 2010
24 posts
“The most admirable thing about the fantastic is that the fantastic does not...”
– André Breton (via lucyphermann, wearebasiclight)
Does Language Influence Culture? →
adailyriot:
freerefills:
theyoungvictoria:
Pretty interesting article in the WSJ today. Basically says that language profoundly influences how we see the world. Some examples:
Russian speakers who have more words for light and dark blues are better able to visually discriminate shades of blue.
An aboriginal community in Australia don’t use terms like “left” and “right”, and instead use...
“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person —...”
– Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859 (via saturnrising, crashinglybeautiful, gmclean) (via mianoti)
Homeopathy
Homeopathy, if it works, should be properly understood as a form of magick, along with hypnotherapy. Magick works when you are dealing with preventative medicine, minor ailments, or as a complement to orthodox therapeutic treatment for major ailments (e.g. my ex partner beat some pretty sobering cancer odds by sheer force of will - combined with cutting edge Western/orthodox treatments). In...
Hungry Ghosts
Phantomlike creatures with withered limbs, grossly bloated bellies, and long thin necks, the Hungry Ghosts in many ways represent a fusion of rage and desire. Tormented by unfilfilled cravings and insatiably demanding of impossible satisfactions, the Hungry Ghosts are searching for gratification for old unfilfilled needs whose time has passed. They are beings who have uncovered a terrible...
“As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your...”
– Pablo Neruda (via moonrat, milktrees)
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly'...
soleremembrance:
Useful information, I say.
“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches,...”
– Walt Whitman (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book) (via somebodywantedbutso) (via nina-moon) (via elengberg) (via iflookscouldreallykill) (via adailyriot)
“To be capable of everything and do justice to everything, one certainly does not...”
– Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game, 1943 (via m-reveur) (via itnumberpi)
“I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that...”
– Ingmar Bergman (via) jingc::theantidote (via itnumberpi) (via watchureyes)