March 2011
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2007.IV.
In our consciousness of time we are doomed to the past. The future we may dream of but can know it only after it has come and gone. The present too we know only as the past. When we say, “This now is present, the heat, the breeze, the rippling water,” it is past. Before we knew it, before we said “now,” it was gone. If the only time we live is the present, and if the present is immeasurably short...
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“If no one’s listening but you, what do you say to the silence?”
– August, Spring (via nathanielstuart)
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Can I Weave A Nest Of Silence
The phoebe sits on her nest Hour after hour, Day after day, Waiting for life to burst out From under her warmth. Can I weave a nest of silence, weave it of listening, listening, listening, Layer upon layer? But one must first become small, Nothing but a presence, Attentive as a nesting bird, Proffering no slightest wish Toward anything that might happen or be given, Only the warm, faithful...
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Anonymous asked: What has inspired you to write all of this?
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WatchA short film I made that captures the story of winter, as told through the elements.
~ü
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“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no...”
– Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
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In my former life I was spoiled and did not take...
“This young woman knew that she would die in the next few days. But when I talked to her she was cheerful in spite of this knowledge, “I am grateful that fate has hit me so hard,” she told me. “In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments seriously.” Pointing through the window of the hut, she said, “This tree here is the only friend I have in my loneliness.”...
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“Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand,...”
– Werner Heisenberg
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Permanence
What is permanent in your life?
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“If we’re to really acknowledge what our life actually is, it has to be an...”
– Darryl Bailey, from the talk “Acknowledging the Moment” (via sharanam)
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“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein
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“The mason stirs. Words! Pens are too light. Take a chisel to write.”
~ Basil Bunting
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“There is no more obnoxious way to punish a man than to force him to perform acts...”
– Simone de Beauvoir
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else...”
– Ambrose Redmoon
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Alva Noë on consciousness →
crashinglybeautiful:
“If we want to understand human consciousness or indeed animal consciousness overall, we can’t just look to the brain. We need to look to the embodied, situated animal’s life. No brain scan, no matter how cleverly constructed, is going to reveal the consciousness happening because that is not where the consciousness is happening. That’s the wrong level of analysis. The...
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“I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still...”
– Herman Hesse, Demian 