I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.
– But who?
I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.
– But who?
dusty wishbone magick
(Source: 1j-11, via winesburgohio)
it can be a hazardous
and difficult
task.
but
if you can’t laugh
at the impossible odds
we all endure as
we seek to understand
and know
then you will
surely sleep
restless
in the
coffin.
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
(via emerycatt)
“I have crossed the seas, left cities behind me, followed the source of rivers and plunged into forests. I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse.
And all that was leading me where? To this very moment.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre
yes.
Caddisfly larvae build protective cases using materials found in their environment. Artist Hubert Duprat supplied them with gold leaf and precious stones. This is what they created.
On Commitment
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.” -W. H. Murray
let’s get one thing clear
there’s much more star dust
when you’re near
“Authority of seniors & the weaknesses of children” - Seneca
If it were so great a comfort to pass from the subjection of our childhood into a state of liberty, how much greater will it be when we come to cast off the boyish levity of our minds, and range ourselves among the philosophers? We are past our minority, it is true, but not our indiscretions; and which is yet worse, we have the authority of seniors, and the weaknesses of children (I might have said of infants, for every little thing frights the one, and every trivial fancy the other). Whoever studies this point well will find that many things are the less to be feared the more terrible they appear.
The Wisdom of Seneca
True joy is a serene and sober motion, and they are miserably out that take laughing for rejoicing. The seat of it is within, and there is no cheerful- ness like the resolution of a brave mind, that has fortune under his feet. He that can look death in the face and bid it welcome; open his door to poverty, and bridle his appetites; this is the man whom Providence has established in the possession of inviolable delights.
The pleasures of the vulgar are ungrounded, thin, and superficial; but the other are solid and eternal. As the body itself is rather a necessary thing than a great, so the comforts of it are but temporary and vain; besides that, without extra- ordinary moderation, their end is only pain and repentance; whereas a peaceful conscience, honest thoughts, virtuous actions, and an indifference for casual events, are blessings without end, satiety, or measure.
“Of a Happy Life” - Seneca
Wisdom of the Stoics, available in full as an online PDF http://www.mises.ch/library/Hazlitt_Wisdom_of_the_Stoics.pdf
Being well-rounded is highly overrated
So I am sometimes like a tree
rustling over a gravesite
and making real the dream
of the one its living roots
embrace:
a dream once lost
among sorrows and songs.
– Rilke
A gorilla, and a human baby reacting to the coldness of the stethoscope exactly the same way.
(via ada-life)
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man’s reasonable perception into feeling.
– Leo Tolstoy
