July 2009
151 posts
retrofit obsolete mental constructs
“One word frees us from all the weight and pain in life, and that word is Love.”
– Socrates
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish. All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake. Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.
-Herman Hesse
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“The imaginary represents at each moment the implicit meaning of the real.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
gibt es ein leben vor dem tod?
is their life before death?
“She stood, in a room of crumbling plaster, pressed to the window-pane, looking...”
– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
is freedom just another word for nothing left to lose?
“Don’t you hate that? Uncomfortable silence. Why do we feel it’s necessary to...”
– Pulp Fiction
if i had known it was going to be the end, would i have done anything differently?
heaven is a truck
walls are caving in
past is fading out
stakes are rising
roads are unwinding
thoughts are crossing
let the blind lead those who can see but cannot feel
where’s the missing peace?
you’re free, but in your mind, your freedom is in a bind
“You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still...”
– Peter Pan
Where’s the missing peace?
I think that the saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anyone or anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand. And without them, happiness is only temporary because there’s nothing to make it last and no one to share it with. Happiness is only real if it is shared. I love to hear people talk about what their most passionate about, because that’s...
what are we living for if not to create?
Has the spectacle created a generation incapable of grasping the idea that there might be life outside of it?
i’m the finger down your spine when all the lights are out…
When I roll over I can still smell you in the hollow where you slept
-Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott
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all generalizations are false, including this one
create systems
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retrofit obsolete mental constructs
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you can count on your imagination
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that...”
– Nelson Mandela 