February 2012
148 posts
“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a...”
– Erich Fromm
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
– Carl Jung
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
– Walt Whitman
kateoplis: “Fiction’s about what it is to be a... →
“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being,” he once said. Good writing should help readers to “become less alone inside.” Wallace’s desire to write “morally passionate, passionately moral fiction,” as he put it in a 1996 essay on Dostoyevsky, presented him with a number of…
“A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at...”
– An excerpt from Wandering by Hermann Hesse
There is a wind break of marvelously tall cotton wood trees behind my parent’s house. I always knew spring had finally arrived when I would hear the rustle and roar of the wind in those trees. Listening to the wind in those trees stirs the soul. ...
Our Media, Ourselves: Are We headed for a Matrix? →
I heard THE BEST story on NPR’s All Things Considered today, you can read the story below, but the audio for it is amazing. Click the link if ya want to give it a listen:
When Hollywood imagines the future, from Logan’s Run to Avatar, it tends to picture living spaces as sterile and characterless, without any cultural clues to the person who lives there. No record library, no...
“You, too, have mysteries of your own. I know that you must have dreams that you...”
– Hermann Hesse excerpt from “Demian”
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t...”
– Mark Twain
“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...”
– Neil Gaiman
“My first language was shy. Its only by having been thrust into the limelight...”
– Al Pacino.
“Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to...”
– Hermann Hesse
“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how...”
– Hermann Hesse
What do you do when you're tweaked out on...
Deep clean your apartment while you listen to every Zeppelin album you own.
The reconstruction of your soul begins when you're...
So my birthday is tomorrow. 28 years old. I have mixed emotions about this. This past year as been, quite honestly, one of the best I’ve had thus far. There are a number of reasons for this…my professional life (if you can call it that) is taking an interesting turn, I’ve finally crawled out of the darkness that dominated my heart, I have rediscovered parts of myself that I...
“All children, as long as they still live in the mystery, are continuously...”
– Herman Hesse “Iris”
“Maybe we’re laying here because you don’t want to standing somewhere...”
– Serendipity
“Master your words.
Master your thoughts.
Never allow your body to do harm....”
– Buddha
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“A long conviction of worthlessness builds strong walls.”
– C. Mills
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde
WatchReally interesting/amazing video of Bukowski reading his poem Dinosauria, We
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break As political landscapes dissolve As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree As the oily fish spit out their oily prey As the sun is masked We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into...
“I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.”
– Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the...”
– Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed...”
– Martin Luther
