February 2012
3 posts
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral”
(via qglas)
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to...”
– Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (page 23)
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when...”
– Henry Miller, Sexus (via slychedelic)
oh hey tumblr. guess i'm back.
“I want to transform you from unconsciousness into consciousness, from darkness...”
– Osho (via slychedelic)
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
4 posts
turnmyheadintosound:
MISC: “We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of…
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion....
“When death carts me off to the bottomlands, when I begin the long work of...”
– from “Gravel” by Mary Oliver (via awakeinthedream) (via dreaminginthedeepsouth)
August 2010
2 posts
20 New Ideas In Science
metaconscious:
Today’s most cutting-edge scientific thinking: from switching off ageing to “enhancing” our babies; understanding consciousness to finding dark matter.
Humans are still evolving
The modern world hasn’t stayed evolution’s hand. Comparisons of different genomes show that natural pressures are still doing their thing. The gene for digesting lactose, for example, is slowly...
July 2010
6 posts
“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via nathanielstuart)
“Longing on a large scale is what makes history. This is just a kid with a local...”
– Don Delillo, Underworld (via vagias) (via notational)
Decomposer
pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:
Sometimes I wish that an undead Pachelbel would rise from the grave and eat the brains of all the pop-punk turds who keep stealing the chords from his Canon.
June 2010
14 posts
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau | Submitted by: bornonthe17th (via quote-book)
“You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything:
the darkness that comes with...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
via melancohol//paynehollow//odayaka//neonmedusa)
“If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj (via oceanofmind) (via neonmedusa)
“It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound;...”
– Carl Jung (from Whiskey River) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via anotherword)
“I find it strange that many Buddhists seem to think that this world, and what...”
– Stephen Batchelor
(via sharanam)
“How tired I am of stories, how tired I am of phrases that come down beautifully...”
– Bernard in The Waves by Virginia Woolf (via sixstepsback) (via notational)
May 2010
9 posts
“Be not comforted. Consolation is not what you need. Weep and be not consoled,...”
– Father Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(via reddysteadygo)
(via dostoyevsky)
(via bolsheviks)
Exercise
crashinglybeautiful:
First, forget what time it is for an hour. Do it regularly every day. Then forget what day of the week it is, and do this regularly in company for a week. Then forget what country you are in, and practice doing it in company for a week, and then do them together for a week with as few breaks as possible. Follow these by forgetting how to add or to subtract. It makes no...
“Here’s one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing...”
– Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall (via thresca)
April 2010
6 posts
running from, running to →
There are only ever going to be two certainties in life: that it is entirely and altogether fucking crazy uncertain, and that it will someday come to an end. In death there is the comfortable certainty of eternity; you will be gone and for you, nothing will ever change again. So why, in this handful of decades on a speck of dust floating around a bobbing candle flame, would you want to settle...
“Metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity. If we...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via ontheborderland)
“It is shocking and profoundly regrettable, but, apparently, sales of oranges are...”
– From The Age of Absurdity : Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy by Michael Foley. (via anuntrainedeye) (via mianoti) (via crashinglybeautiful)