February 2012
65 posts
Remember sneaking out the window of your parents house in the middle of the...
– The Taxpayers, To Risk So Much For One Damn Meal
The truth isn’t easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is...
– Terry Pratchett, Discworld, Sourcery (via heartmindspirit)
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Crass Documentary: There is No Authority But Yourself
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The experts, as their studies become focused on smaller and smaller fragments,...
– Sir Albert Howard
Seriousness is the disease of the ego, and sincerity is a quality of the heart.
– Osho
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In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So...
– Alan Watts (via mariposa-serendipia)
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Part of self-preservation is to ignore 95% of the stuff that’s out there....
– Sasha Shulgin, Dirty Pictures
☼: “There’s a story about a very accomplished... →
homininae:
“There’s a story about a very accomplished dervish who was walking besides a lake thinking about absolute truth when he heard someone on an island chanting. He noticed that the chant wasn’t quite right. It wasn’t the way the dervish had learned it. The scholar got a boat and rowed to the island…
So just play. Don’t get too heavy about it, it’s all alright.
– Ram Dass, Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita - “Karma and Reincarnation”
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed,...
– C.G. Jung, near the end of his life, in Memories, Dreams (via fuckyeahcarljung)
In this strain towards decency, man is heir to a primitive condition which...
– Jules Henry, Culture Against Man (via commondense)
When Wikipedia was first founded, it was kind of a joke. The quality of the...
– Carol Black, Occupy Your Brain
My young men shall never work. Men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us...
– Smohala
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...
– Buckminster Fuller
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CHAOS NEVER DIED. Primordial uncarved block, sole worshipful monster, inert...
– Hakim Bey, T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
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Anonymous asked: Good Luck at SVS! They will love you. As we all do. xo
One thing that strikes me is that I know people who say to me, “Oh, I...
– Sudbury Valley School graduate (I have an interview at an SVS in Toronto this week, wish me luck!)
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One regular practice of the group that Lee studied was that of “insulting...
– Peter Gray, How Hunter-Gatherers Maintained Their Egalitarian Ways
This Madison Avenue vision of the super-duper new and improved present is framed...
– Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, “Who You Calling a Starry-Eyed Romantic, Pal?”, Sex at Dawn
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you...
– Jiddu Krishnamurti (via moreofamore)
Adventurousness is one of the most essential qualities for those who want to...
– Osho (via moreofamore)
Life is God. All life; bugs, birds, trees, everything that is alive is God. The...
– Charles Manson (via charlesmansonatwar)
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
– Søren Kierkegaard (via lucifelle)
Many economists have forgotten (or never understood) that their central...
– Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, “Homo Economicus”, Sex at Dawn
Through chance, my mind stumbled into a certain awareness of the Cosmos. That...
– Infinity Imagined (via infinity-imagined)
I am omnipotent insofar as I am the Universe, but I am not omnipotent in the...
– Alan Watts