December 2008
92 posts
Band of Horses | Is There a Ghost
“The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of...”
– LIn Chi
Four of the Main Givens of Life
We are ultimately alone;
things are transitory;
life is unpredictable and often unfair;
and suffering seems to be a universal experience.
— David Richo
“You’ve got to take the bull between your teeth.”
– Samuel Goldwyn
Ideal
Apropos that one-true-love that didn’t last forever, give yourself credit for having, however fleetingly, posited an ideal. Only that; an ideal.
Ideals aren’t so much, more often they’re just hovering shades that make reality look trashy.
And to the one you shared it with, that illusion, say, tenderly, “I will always remember the person I thought you were.”
—...
“Include me out.”
– Samuel Goldwyn
Default Settings/Real Freedom
In the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it JC or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some...
Bluebird
there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you. there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there. there’s a bluebird in my heart...
“Only the curious will learn, only the resolute overcome the obstacles to...”
– Eugene S. Wilson
Brazilian Girls | L’Interprete
“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.”
– Franklin Pierce Adams
Sufjan Stevens | O Come O Come Emmanuel
Understanding and Insight
Understanding evolves in the same way as natural systems do. Each new level, whether of being or knowledge, encompasses all the previous levels and manifests the innauguration of the domininion of a still more powerful — at the same time more concentrated and more comprehensive — unifying principle. It is as if, as the reach of its organizing power encompasses more and more diversity,...
Kanye West | Love Lockdown (Flying Lotus remix)
“As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.”
— Mary Oliver
“Everything becomes pointless.”
– Albert Camus
“The souls of men form, in some manner, the incandescent surface of matter...”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“She’s the sort of women who lives for others — you can always tell the...”
– C.S.Lewis
Little Cindy | Happy Birthday Jesus
Just don’t seek from others, Or you’ll be far estranged from Self. I now go on alone; Everywhere I meet It: It now is me; I now am It. One must understand in this way To merge with thusness.
— Dongshan Liangjie
“Entering into the utmost emptiness, I maintain the stillness wholeheartedly.”
– Lao Tzu
I must let go of it all lest the judgment come and find me unannihilate and I be delivered into the hands of my own selfhood. — William Blake
“I have little patience for scientists who take a board of wood, look for its...”
– Albert Einstein