March 2012
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February 2012
173 posts
“For our goal was not only the East, or rather the East was not only a country...”
– Hermann Hesse “The Journey to the East”
“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you...”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived...”
– Ernest Hemingway
Why?
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking. - Jean-Paul Sartre
I fairly frequently am asked the question of “why?” “Why do you do what you do?” Which is generally followed by “How in the world did you come to this?” I was explaining this to a friend in a punk bar in alphabet city recently...
“When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only...”
– From “Siddhartha” Hermann Hesse
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them...”
– Hermann Hesse
A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of... →
kateoplis:
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
Read on.
Partially guilty of number 3….
Always seeking home.
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
- Charles Dickinson
It’s 2am and I’m laying in my friend’s apartment staring at the Manhattan skyline through his living room window. It’s windy tonight and I lay in the dark watching the skyline, listening to the sounds of the city...
Giving a presentation in NYC today on a controversial subject. Nervous as hell.
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“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin (via flostp)
“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