January 2011
December 2010
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words...”
– T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (via collectingthekid)
“Behold the diamonds of your bracelet, fix your mind upon them, and meditate...”
– Spoke a sage to the Indian king Kankanapa; from Lama Anagarika Govinda, Foundations of Tibetan Buddhism
“The harsh divisions of spirit and nature, mind and body, subject and object,...”
– Alan Watts, Nature, Man, and Woman (via knowledgeandspirit)
fuckyeahexistentialism:
The Beatles - Tomorrow...
“It is no accident that the world outside television has concentrated...”
– Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (via knowledgeandspirit)
Anonymous asked: Well fo' starters, who are you? Where you from?
And for a real legitimate question: How did you get your page on continuous scroll?
Oh..and I much love your blogito.
Anon for shits and giggles.
But mostly shits.
And for a real legitimate question: How did you get your page on continuous scroll?
Oh..and I much love your blogito.
Anon for shits and giggles.
But mostly shits.
Anonymous asked: Well fo' starters, who are you? Where you from?
And for a real legitimate question: How did you get your page on continuous scroll?
Oh..and I much love your blogito.
Anon for shits and giggles.
But mostly shits.
And for a real legitimate question: How did you get your page on continuous scroll?
Oh..and I much love your blogito.
Anon for shits and giggles.
But mostly shits.
“The people we are tempted to call clods and boors are just those who seem to...”
– Alan Watts, The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
As the mind sees it, so it shall be; alchemically imprinted into the fabric of the cosmos.
“With no Providence the soul must rely on the dust of its husk, on the experience...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Realizing that Albert Einstein and Alan Watts viewed the same core ontology.
““A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein, Letter of 1950, as quoted in The New York Times (29 March 1972) and The New York Post (28 November 1972). (via amiquote)
satans-advocate asked: here's a track to blast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY8Ty-temD0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY8Ty-temD0
satans-advocate asked: here's a track to blast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY8Ty-temD0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY8Ty-temD0
I keep my books, drinks, computer, heater, miscellaneous items, etc., on top of my bass amps. In other words, I have really loud tables, if necessary.
“Where evolution was once an interactive process between human beings and a...”
– Jerry Mander, In The Absence of the Sacred
African Villages Glow With Renewable Energy →
Finally. A taste of a future to hope for.
“To say that we, the public, had no participation in these vast changes would be...”
– Jerry Mander, In The Absence of the Sacred
Insomnia; the perennial and ubiquitous altered state of consciousness. Corollary to its positive binary partner: dreaming.
“You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present-day...”
– Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing
“Of whatever temperament a professional philosopher is, he tries, when...”
– William James (via knowledgeandspirit)
Happy Festivus
“Thus in deep hours I have seen, over the fields,
the ears of wheat tolling in...”
– Pablo Neruda
“In one way or another,
the Cosmos we inhabit -
human body, house, territory,...”
– Mircea Eliade, Philosopher (1907-1986). Courtesy of the Tao of Photography (via crashinglybeautiful)
People will collect their experiences and hoard their memories like treasures, or medals, declaring, “look! I’ve done this! Appreciate that! Know that! Recognize me for that! I have seen what you have and have not!”
“The third girl I slept with used to call my penis my raison d’être.”
– Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing.
“His reading technique consisted of reading two pages at a time—the left with his left eye and the right with his right—at a rate of about 8–10 seconds per page. It is believed he could recall the content of at least 12,000 books from memory.”
Damn.