February 2011
37 posts
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“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy...”
– from Illusions by Richard Bach
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“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.”
– from Illusions by Richard Bach
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“[Anything] that’s got space and time is all movie and all illusion,”...”
– from Illusions by Richard Bach
January 2011
155 posts
The Balance Affirmation
oceanofmind:
There is no possession, there is only passion.
There are no accidents, there is only experience.
There is no polarity, there is only balance.
There is no uncertainty, there is only knowledge.
There is no involvement, there is only observation.
There is no judgement, there is only serenity.
There is no identity, there is only the I AM.
There is no death, there is only the...
“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein
Enjoy Existing
“It’s not a matter of right and wrong. Really, there is no wrong. Not in our...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via bodymindandsoul)
“The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities, with the infinite...”
– Waking Life (via likethesun)
“There is something so pristine, so untouchable about true love. Something that...”
– Adriennemae (via onekarma)
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her...”
– Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (via mystifiedandsublime)
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“Werner Heisenberg’s principle states that there is a limit to objective determinancy. If everyone has a singular viewpoint, constantly changing, then everyone creates his or her own version of reality. This gives the responsibility for reality construction not to a bad-natured biblical God, or to an impersonal, mechanical process of entropic devolution, or to an omniscient Marxist...
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Hermann Hesse's Three Stages of Human Development
1. The tribal sense of tropical-blissful unity,
2. The horrid polarities of the feudal industrial societies, good evil, male female, Christian-Moslem, etc., and
3. The revelatory rediscovery of The Oneness of It All
(Source: Timothy Leary’s Cyberpunks Cyberfreedom: Change Reality Screens)
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“A human being is basically a tribal person, most comfortable being together in...”
– Timothy Leary, Cyberpunks Cyberfreedom: Change Reality Screens
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“When you think of it, the ultimate wicked oxymoron is organized religion....”
– Timothy Leary, Cyberpunks Cyberfreedom: Change Reality Screens
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“[The book of] Genesis makes it clear that the whole universe is owned, operated, controlled, and fabricated by one God - and he’s a big, bad-tempered male. That’s why we have a war on mind drugs. The one thing that no mass society can stand is individuals and small groups that go off to start learning how to program, reprogram, boot up, activate and format their own brains.
...
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“People spend more time gazing at electrons than they do gazing into the eyes of...”
– Timothy Leary, Cyberpunks Cyberfreedom: Change Reality Screens
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To break from what we're tied to
Well, it’s been made crystal clear that it’s not an option for me to live like the others, or to live how I’ve been living, but the question remains: What are you going to do about it? And I also try to find the source of discomfort, of self-loathing. I begin to realize it comes from not living the way one should be living, in accordance with one’s own nature (and for every...
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I have been looking through old journal entries made during an incredibly difficult time of my life - when I started to wake up - and I have been quite surprised by how much sense they make. I was led to believe for a very long time that I was ‘defective’ and ‘delinquent’ simply because I would not be a willing cog in the system.
With the wisdom of hindsight, I know now,...
“And when the day arrives
I’ll become the sky
And I’ll become the...”
– Nine Inch Nails - La Mer
“I need help and I need other people, as much as I thought I didn’t. And...”
– Trent Reznor (source)
Want to help Kelley Williams-Bolar? →
thecranium:
She is the black mother who was convicted of a felony and sentenced to jail time and probation for sending her two daughters to a school in a different district. As you have probably guessed, the school they attended is safer and whiter than the one in the girls’ neighborhood….
“
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch
Black Swan: A Feministing Discussion →
jgoreham:
An interesting feminist discussion on the movie Black Swan.
*edited for spelling
'A Shroom With A View' Podcasts →
“A podcast aimed toward helping the beginning mushroom grower get everything they can out of the hobby.”
:)
Black Mother Jailed for Sending Kids to White... →
mindbabies:
Black Mother Jailed For Sending Kids to White School District
An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live. Kelly Williams-Bolar was sentenced by Judge Patricia Cosgrove…
Depressing but definitely worth reading, especially for those who are still under the...
“Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get...”
– Jessica Valenti
(via sillysocialisthippie)
“it cannot be denied that the university is a place of refuge, and it cannot be...”
– Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, “The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses” (via questionsofmethod)
about.me →
Cool concept, but I’m really hesitant about the extension of the physical personality to the web. Mainly because I jumped on this bandwagon in the last couple of years and then in the last couple of weeks decided that I didn’t want to do this anymore.
Putting my real name online used to be unthinkable. Same with a photograph! I came to the internet in the late 90s and out of a very...
280,000 pro-China astroturfers are running amok... →
“If you thought corporate “astroturfing” (fake grassroots activity) was a problem at sites like Yelp and Amazon that feature user reviews of products, imagine how much worse it would be if the US government employed a couple hundred thousand people to “shape the debate” among online political forums. Crazy, right? What government would ever attempt it?
According to...
“Don’t fight forces. Use them.”
– Bucky Fuller
“Of all the frictional resistances,
the one that most retards human movement is...”
– Nikola Tesla (via tomorrowlander)
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via onecuriousyogi)
“Sometimes I think that the greatest achievement of modern culture is its...”
– Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Page 20 (via elige)
“The world needs your gifts.”
– @jonathanmead
