February 2011
Mississippi Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher, &...
January 2011
Egypt is burning and most westerners have no idea...
Egypt is burning and most westerners have no idea why | Mondoweiss
By Parvez Sharma
January 28, 2011
Cairo is burning. So is Egypt. Twitter is exploding. Everyone seems to have an opinion—many who do have never even been to Egypt but feel a strong sense of solidarity with the most remarkable revolution in a generation, perhaps. A revolution which importantly is not really caused by Twitter...
Blind Willie Johnson “Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed ”...
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when...”
– Henry Miller, Sexus (via liquidnight)
“ “Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot...”
– Carlos Castaneda, anthropologist (via amiquote)
The influence of a vital person vitalizes, there’s no doubt about it. The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who’s on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and...
“The search for Reality
is the most dangerous
of all undertakings,
for it...”
– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (via aristela)
“The painful indifference toward our feelings that characterizes any commodity...”
– Claire Fontaine (via lazz)
“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”
– Buddha (via trevinathegr8)
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom...”
– Anais Nin (via damali5683)
Out of the Moment: Stephen Hawking on Free Will
“Do people have free will? If we have free will, where in the evolutionary tree did it develop? Do blue-green algae or bacteria have free will, or is their behavior automatic and within the realm of scientific law? Is it only multicelled organisms that have free will, or only mammals? We might think that a chimpanzee is exercising free will when it chooses to chomp on a banana, or a cat when...
“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye, “Kindness.” Epigraph from Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian (via epigraphic)
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (The curse of the creative class)
“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein [Submitted by -sirrah] (via quote-book)
“Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who...”
– Judith Martin (Miss Manners)
“Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (Beautiful, thank you, liquidnight)
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it...”
– John Constable (via saatchionline)