January 2012
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“A mandarin fell in love with a courtesan. ‘I shall be yours,’ she told him, ‘when you have spent a hundred nights waiting for me, sitting on a stool, in my garden, beneath my window.’ But on the ninety-ninth night, the mandarin stood up, put his stool under his arm, and went away.”
Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, 1977
November 2011
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“When a person has arrived at a stage in life when he accepts the inevitable with equanimity, when he has tasted good and bad to the full, and has carved out for himself alongside his external life, an inner, more real and not fortuitous existence, then it seems my life has not been empty and worthless. Even if my external destiny has unfolded itself as it does with everyone, inevitably and...
October 2011
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September 2011
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“Laila came to Qays while he was crying out for her, ‘Laila! Laila!’. She said, ‘Here I am; I am Laila!’ He responded, ‘I am too busy with my love for you to busy myself with you.’”
Shaykh Muhammad Sa’id al-Jamal al-Rifa’i, The Path To Allah, Most High
July 2011
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Cults, “Oh My God,” 2011
“Modern man lives in a private world of his own, enclosed within himself, and modern symbolism is not objective: it is private; it does not obligate. The symbols of the kabbalists, on the other hand, did not speak only to the private individual - they displayed a symbolic dimension to the whole world.
The question is whether in the reality in which today’s secular person lives, this...
June 2011
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“Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we acquire knowledge.”
Daniel Tammet, 2011
source: TED talk
“…we have made far too little fuss over the fact that we count the word ‘soul,’ ‘spirit’ as part of our own educated vocabulary. In comparison to that, it is a trifle that we don’t believe that our soul eats and drinks. In our language a whole mythology is laid down.”
Wittgenstein, 1949
remarks on Frazer’s The Golden Bough, quoted in...
“Learn at first concentration without effort; transform work into play; make every yoke that you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry light!” anonymous, Meditations on the Tarot, 1985
May 2011
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“Instrumental causality [as a ‘spontaneous tendency of the human mind’] has to be distinguished from the development in modern history of ‘instrumental causality’ as an ideology: the project of establishing a complete worldview based upon a theory (or set of theories) claiming exclusive truth and sufficiency with respect to all dimensions of reality. What is...
April 2011
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Pennsylvania Dutch hex
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March 2011
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“Of bodhisattvas there were thirty-two thousand, great spiritual heroes who were universally acclaimed. They were dedicated through the penetrating activity of their great superknowledges and were sustained by the grace of the Buddha. Guardians of the city of Dharma, they upheld the true doctrine, and their great teachings resounded like the lion’s roar throughout the ten directions....
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February 2011
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Sarah Duncan
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Matt Oliver, untitled 4-track recording, 2003
October 2010
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“Now, the normal relationship between thought, feeling, and the will for a civilised and educated person is such that his thought awakens feeling and directs the will. Having to act, one thinks, one imagines, one feels, and - lastly - one desires and acts. This is not so for the ‘spiritual person.’ He acts first, then he desires, then he feels the worth of his action, and...
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“Everything is finished for me on this earth. Neither good nor evil can be done to me by any man. I have nothing left in the world to fear or hope for, and this leaves me in peace at the bottom of the abyss, a poor unfortunate mortal, but as unmoved as God himself.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker, 1776
NEC SPE NEC METU
September 2010
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-->william burroughs on led zeppelin 1975 →
“It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts – music, painting and writing – is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.”
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“I remember, when I was a kid, once seeing my father strike my mother for absolutely no reason. Though he sometimes did the same thing to me, I did not realize that he did it sheerly out of bad temper, and believed that his trumped-up justifications (“You talk too much”; “Don’t look at me like that”) somehow warranted the punishment. But the day I saw him hit my...
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August 2010
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Bill Murray interview →
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Joshua Saunders interview →
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“Society can’t touch me, man. I never went to school, never been trained...”
– Esteban Jordan (1939-2010)
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WatchThe Shivers, “L.I.E.” live at Baby Blue, July 21, 2010