March 2012
1 post
“Words can be said to be the very source of our being, and in fact the very...”
– Vaclav Havel, A Word About Words (1989)
November 2011
1 post
4 tags
Nature
“Nature is not the one-sided affair that we seem to wish it were. Having attempted to eradicate and control nature, to discount its blessings, we are all the more shocked by its destructive power. For most of us, nature is not the birth of a child, the bounty of food, a gentle summer day, or the extraordinary internal processes that maintain our health and existence—nature is a...
September 2011
1 post
4 tags
Why Fight Club Should Replace Detention
Fight club should replace school detention for several reasons:
a.) Students would be conditioned to associate poor conduct and bad grades with physical pain
b.) It would prevent childhood obesity and diabetes as well as develop motor skills in students who will probably end up joining the army or pursuing vocational careers.
c.) It would be much more entertaining for everyone involved.
November 2010
2 posts
i’m starting to find that those who are quickest to judge others are always the least likely to objectively criticize themselves. go ahead and exist in your fictional universe of half-truths and assumptions. when you’re ready to leave there will be no fire escape to climb down, and no one waiting to catch you. when you choose elitism you choose to be lonely at the top.
October 2010
2 posts
“There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
– Francis Bacon, The Essays (via sherry)
September 2010
1 post
“Creation and destruction, love and hate, are not two
instincts which exist...”
– Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
August 2010
1 post
“Attention is the holy grail,” Mr. Strayer says. “Everything that you’re...”
– Your Brain on Computers - Studying the Brain Off the Grid, Professors Find Clarity - NYTimes.com (via steampoweredmedia)
July 2010
4 posts
When you see trees waxing and waning in the flow of the wind you have to wonder if they lose themselves the way we do. Is their reality constant? Does their consciousness ebb into something greater? Do they become us as we become them? After all we are all one in a cosmic pool of uncertainty… Or do they hold the key to certainty? What is it that they know that we don’t? Is our intellect a...
Ancient Shamans and tribal groups worldwide have long believed that a traumatic experience within the realm of our inner selves can serve as a catalyst for the truth seeker to move beyond the illusions of the little self and enter the unity of the greater whole.
The Skull: By stripping away the illusions of society and the egoic structure of the little self one experiences an inner death....
this kind of fire by Charles Bukowski
hennypotter:
shelbatron:theuglyone:
sometimes I think the gods deliberately keep pushing me into the fire just to hear me yelp a few good lines. they just aren’t going to let me retire silk scarf about neck giving lectures at Yale. the gods need me to entertain them. they must be terribly bored with all the others and I am too. and now my cigarette lighter has gone dry. I sit here hopelessly...
June 2010
16 posts
“What is ‘there’ is actually a holographic blur of frequencies, and if the brain...”
– Michael Talbot (via oceanofmind)
The gifts the universe bestows on you once you start to value and honor yourself are truly spectacular. I am astonished by how blessed I am to share life with so many remarkably beautiful souls.
“To dream that you at a station, represents a transitional period in your life. You need to take a short break so you can reassess your situation and determine your path and goals.”
Full Moon Eclipse →
This endless beach of lusterless glitter
And emotional landmines
Memories buried, but buried alive
Grasp at your feet if you give them the time
Will they pull you under or grant you release?
Should I trust what’s above or should I watch beneath?
but then again, perhaps human life is, at its core, the very essence of magic itself.
human after all
the moment when we finally sit back and relinquish ourselves to the light of oblivion that we see through squinted eyes, we realize that we’re all mortal. no more pretending that magic will save us, no more wishes fulfilled. there is no genie in a bottle, there is only that magic potion called free will. the quandary arises when we’re brave enough to see that there’s nothing...
“But when a man has once broken through the paper walls of everyday circumstance,...”
– H.G. Wells (via ubu507)
to live forever
a strange day indeed. manifest destiny seems to be a recurring theme as of late. i seem to be weaving spiderwebs of eccentricity and synchronicity, coupled with deja’vu. i feel like i’m reading chapter 6 when i just finished writing chapter 4. i may just have entered the twilight zone, but i have no plans to leave any time soon.
May 2010
8 posts
the doors
to think i started today, well, yesterday, with such an indescribably complete feeling of pure bliss. and now i sit here as the clock ticks towards 4:30, 3 and a half hours before i have to get on the subway for 8 more hours of yoga. i sit here sleepless, paralyzed by a vague sense of foreboding and fear that i haven’t experienced in years, instead of paralyzed by dreams. perhaps im in the...
Dani: i want to ask you an embarrassing and gay question
i feel youre the only one i can ask this
me: go for it
Dani: its also kind of vain
me: no worries
dressed in blue
Cinderella dressed in yellow, went upstairs to kiss her fellow, by mistake she kissed a snake, how many doctors will it take? Cinderella dressed in blue, went upstairs to tie her shoe, made a mistake and tied a knot, how many knots will she make? Cinderella dressed in green, went downtown to buy a ring, made a mistake and bought a fake, how many days before it breaks? Cinderella dressed in...
April 2010
23 posts
Michael: brb! people are looking at my apt to sublet
me: yeah tell your friend eric to get me a job
k. raise the price by 50
they wont know
Sent at 3: 26 PM on Saturday
Michael: haha too late
me: ha say that its 50 extra if they want the lightbulbs
Sent at 3: 28 PM on Saturday
Michael: hahahahaha
oh oh
you want to use the electricity??
we'll have to turn that on
that's an extra 300.
me: haha exactly
"you seemed amish, sorry"
Michael: hahahahaha
..pardon me, I saw your bonnet
i was confused.
did we not list on amish craigslist?
oh, my mistake
me: haha
there should be an amish category
really
Michael: how would they access?
me: yeah, i just thought of that
deviant former amish friends?
“Hey now, all you killers
Put your lights on, put your lights on
Hey now, all...”
– Santana, Everlast
“4/20.
Floor 20.
Baking.
Pizza.
A Poem”
– MJD
“while you wait for the others
to make it all worthwhile
all your useless...”
“In Phantoms Afoot: Helping the Spirits Among Us, Summer Rain claims that No-Eyes...”
Regarding 4/20
me: snoop is sold out btw
Dani: of course
me: but there are like 4000 concerts that day
Dani: its like going to see jesus on christmas
George Washington Just Keeps Becoming More of a... →
“Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees...”
– Malcolm de Chazal (via quote-book)
“I think I’m gonna leave New York for awhile.
I think I’m going to...”
it really does pour.
