POST-IT WISDOM

“For first you write a sentence, and then you chop it small…”

“If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell. Let me be outraged and annihilated, but for one instant, in one being, let Your enormous Library be justified.”

“more than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity…”

“The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.” –Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

“keep the channel open.” –justine musk

A Letter from Caroline Herschel

“Oh time thy pyramids” –Jorge Luis Borges

“more than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity.”

“Indeed, one cannot put a compass to the roundness of heaven, and one cannot put a carpenter's square to the square of the earth. From antiquity to the present, we call that "time;" the four quarters, up and down, we call that "space." The Way lies in their midst, but no one knows its place of origin.” –Huai-Nan Tzu, Taoist, 2nd Century BCE, Cube of Space

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die" –H.P. Lovecraft

“The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of time. Time that move us so that we lose our sense of time; timeless time; moments at which the clock seems to stop; feeding, renewing, more motherly time. It’s the time with which we feel one instead of outside of it, the self, the tao, the love that connects us to others.” ~Jean Shinoda Bolen

“There are different kinds of Spirits, according to the things over which they preside, some of them govern the Empyrean Heaven, others the Primum Mobilé, others the First and Second Crystalline, others the Starry Heaven; there are also Spirits of the Heaven of Saturn, which I call Saturnites; there are Jovial, Martial, Solar, Venerean, Mercurial, and Lunar Spirits; there are also (Spirits) in the Elements as well as in the Heavens, there are some in the Fiery Region, others in the Air, others in the Water, and others upon the Earth, which can all render service to that man who learns their nature, and knows how to attract them.” ―S.L. MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King

“Verily, since no experiments for converse with Spirits can be done without a Circle being prepared, whatsoever experiments therefore thou wishest to undertake for conversing with Spirits, therein thou must learn to construct a certain particular Circle; that being done surround that Circle with the Circle of Art for better caution and efficacy.” ― S.L. MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King: Clavicula Salomonis

“it had twelve courts covered in, with gates facing one another, six upon the north side and six upon the south, joining on one to another, and the same wall surrounds them all outside; and there are in it two kinds of chambers, the one kind below the ground and the other give upon these, three thousand in number, of each kind fifteen hundred.”

time flowers: “The flowers grew to a height of about six feet, their slender stems, like rods of glass, bearing a dozen leaves, the once transparent fronds frosted by the fossilized veins. At the peak of each stem was the time flower, the size of a goblet, the opaque outer petals enclosing the crystal heart. Their diamond brilliance contained a thousand faces, the crystal seeming to drain the air of its light and motion. As the flower swayed slightly in the evening air, they glowed like fame-tipped spears. “

what is true is safe

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

“Utility is subsumed as part of the character of being beautiful. The harmony of an internal form, the inner consistency of a theory, the character of beauty that touches your sensibilities– these are significant factors that determine why one given insight comes into consciousness rather than another…As a psychoanalyst, I can only add that my experience in helping people achieve insights from unconscious dimensions within themselves reveals the same phenomenon–insights emerge not chiefly because they are “intellectually true” or even because they are helpful, but because they have a certain form, the form that is beautiful because it completes what is incomplete in us.”

“He suggested that there is no such thing as metaphor––or, in a senses that all metaphor is true. “Everything is is isomorphic.” (in eastern philosophy: as above, so below.) We may now be experiencing the effects of a social hologram, a pattern of interconnectedness of individuals. Synchronicity, meaningful coincidence, make sense in a meaningful, holographic universe… The uncertainty of occurrence of events is only superficial; there are underlying symmetries, not just haphazard occurrences.” ~ Ken Wilber, The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes

"Quod nos facimus in vitam, resonat in aeternum.": What we do in life, echoes in eternity.

“Euclid” by Vachel Lindsay

“All men are to be loved equally,” he wrote. “But since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special regard to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you.”

CxD

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. –Buckminster Fuller

"I do not, directly, blame all the architects who have made these buildings in so many places on earth. I believe it is inappropriate to feel anger towards them... Rather, I believe that we must acknowledge that the architects (often our own colleagues) who drew these buildings, and then had them built by methods and processes far from their control, deserve our sympathy for being placed in an impossible position. What has caused the new tradition of structure-destroying forms of this era, are mainly the machine-like processes of planning, conceiving, budgeting, developing, construction contracting, construction labor, and so forth. The architects who fully accepted the modern machine have hardly been more than pawns in the game which is much larger than they are."

‘Euclid’ by Vachel Lindsay

‘The Circle and the Square’ by Thomas Dekker

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

“The Circle” by christopher morley

Haruspex By Teresa Pham-Carsillo

‘The Magic Box’ by W. R. Baker

-Here come more stars to character the skies, And they in the estimation…-2025-04-24

Will it be possible then, for people to say stonily, that poems are not real, and that patterns are nothing but images: when in fact, the world of images controls the world of matter. -Christopher Alexander

“There is an invisible universe within the visible one, a world of causes within the world of effects. There is force within matter, and the two are one, and are dependent for their existence on a third, which is the mysterious cause of their existence.. There is a world of soul within a world of matter, and the two are one, and caused by the world of spirit.” ~ F. Hartmann, Paracelsus: Life and Prophecies

Actualism distinguishes two basic polarities of energy relationships, dynamic and magnetic. The dynamic pole is outgoing, expressive, giving, masculine, yang...The magnetic pole is incoming, receptive, feminine, yin... In a broader sense, the dynamic aspect of consciousness is functional and the magnetic is structural. Function moves through structure, and is given body or form by The Gnostic Book of Changes 9 structure. Energy (dynamic) is embodied (in-formed) into matter (magnetic). Some examples of this principle are: the flow of electric current (dynamic) through a conductor (magnetic); the flow of life through the human body; and the structuring of sound energy into meaningful verbal patterns. An unstructured dynamic expression is random and incoherent; a magnetic without dynamic function is an empty and powerless structure.

The Perennial Philosophy has spoken almost all the languages of Asia and Europe and has made use of the terminology and traditions of every one of the higher religions. But under all this confusion of tongues and myths, of local histories and particularist doctrines, there remains a Highest Common Factor, which is the Perennial Philosophy in what may be called its chemically pure state... It is only the act of contemplation, when words and even personality are transcended, that the pure state of the Perennial Philosophy can actually be known. The records left by those who have known it in this way make it abundantly clear that all of them, whether Hindu, Buddhist, Hebrew, Taoist, Christian or Mohammedan, were attempting to describe the same essentially indescribable Fact.

“The ideal form gracefully artificed suggests the infinite rising levels of existence and consciousness, expanding sizes rising toward transcendence above, and at the same time housing the sacred deep within.”

"Centers are those particular identified sets, or systems, which appear within the larger whole as distinct and noticeable parts. They appear because they have noticeable distinctness, which makes them separate out from their surroundings and makes them cohere, and it is from the arrangements of these coherent parts that other coherent parts appear. The life or intensity of one center is increased or decreased according to the position and intensity of other nearby centers. Above all, centers become most intense when the centers which they are made of help each other."

“The Magic Box” by W. R. Baker

"Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts." –Plotinus

quantum theory forces us to see the universe not as a collection of physical objects, but rather as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of a unified whole... All physical particles are dynamically composed of on another in a self-consistent way, an in that sense can be said to contain on another.

physicist david bohm says that the hologram is a starting point for anew description of reality: the enfoled order. classical reality has focused on secondary manifestations–the unfolded aspect of things, not its source. (p.6)

Enantiomorphosis (a natural history of mirrors) by Christian Bök

Tell the truth, but tell it slant

Art is a bridge between the soul and the world. - Gustav Klimt

I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries – the realists of a larger reality. —Ursula K. Le Guin[28]

Philosophy, as Hegel puts it, “is its own time comprehended in thoughts… If philosophy does not stand above its time in content, it does so in form, because, as the thought and knowledge of that which is the substantial spirit of its time, it makes that spirit its object."

Richard Feynman said during a 1961 lecture:[15] There is a fact, or if you wish, a law, governing all natural phenomena that are known to date. There is no known exception to this law – it is exact so far as we know. The law is called the conservation of energy. It states that there is a certain quantity, which we call energy, that does not change in manifold changes which nature undergoes. That is a most abstract idea, because it is a mathematical principle; it says that there is a numerical quantity which does not change when something happens. It is not a description of a mechanism, or anything concrete; it is just a strange fact that we can calculate some number and when we finish watching nature go through her tricks and calculate the number again, it is the same.

I prefer going to the ancient languages for the names of important scientific quantities, so that they may mean the same thing in all living tongues. I propose, therefore, to call S the entropy of a body, after the Greek word "transformation". I have designedly coined the word entropy to be similar to energy, for these two quantities are so analogous in their physical significance, that an analogy of denominations seems to me helpful.–Clausius explained his choice of "entropy”

“The sky and the lands, the watery plains, the moon's gleaming face, the Titanic Sun and the stars are all strengthened by Spirit working within them, and by Mind, which is blended into all the vast universe and pervades every part of it, enlivening the whole mass.” ~ Virgil, The Aeneid

“he is not content to say that organisms are machines, but asserts that they contain such an abundance of parts that they must be compared to very different parts of distinct machines, each relating to the others, engendered in combination with the others”

‘The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.

infinite space

45. What ‘vivid perception’ means, and what ‘clear perception’ means. Many people, indeed, never perceive anything accurately enough to be able to make a judgment about it with certainty. For a perception to support a certain and indubitable judgment, it needs to be not merely •vivid but also •clear. I call a perception ‘vivid’ when it is present and accessible to the attentive mind—just as we say that we see something vividly when it is present to the eye’s gaze and stimulates it with a sufficient degree of strength and accessibility. I call a perception ‘clear’ if, as well as being vivid, it is so sharply separated from all other perceptions that every part of it is vivid.

34. Making a judgment requires •will as well as •intellect. In order to make a judgment we must of course have some perception, so the intellect has to be involved; but the judgment itself—the assent—is an act of the will. Now, a sort of judgment can be made even when there is no complete and exhaustive perception of whatever-it-is, because we can assent to many things that we know only in a very obscure and confused manner.

It may well be said that the contemporary cultural consciousness has not yet absorbed into its general philosophy the idea of the unconscious and all that it means, despite the fact that modern man has been confronted with this idea for more than half a century. The assimilation of the fundamental insight that psychic life has two poles still remains a task for the future. –Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women. –Marilyn Monroe

“One generation planets the trees under whose shade another generation rests.”

with eros comes thanatos

Thus, all Philosophy is like a tree, of which Metaphysics is the root, Physics the trunk, and all the other sciences the branches that grow out of this trunk, which are reduced to three principals, namely, Medicine, Mechanics, and Ethics. By the science of Morals, I understand the highest and most perfect which, presupposing an entire knowledge of the other sciences, is the last degree of wisdom. –Descartes

Nature also teaches me, by the sensations of pain, hunger, thirst and so on, that I am not merely present in my body as a pilot in his ship, but that I am very closely joined and, as it were, intermingled with it, so that I and the body form a unit. If this were not so, I, who am nothing but a thinking thing, would not feel pain when the body was hurt, but would perceive the damage purely by the intellect, just as a sailor perceives by sight if anything in his ship is broken.[107]

“Our egotism is not a bad thing. We have to see it for what it is. It’s simply fuel. As fuel it has its use, but without awareness we don’t refine that fuel, so we don’t leave the trap of our urge to find fulfilment. The bottom line is that ego isn’t the enemy. It’s the booster rocket that one day will launch us into inner space.” – Richard Rudd, 64 Ways

“The gates of hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but to return, and view the cheerful skies, in this the task and mighty labor lies.”

"As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know."

“Formally, it is the most compatible with the architecture of the Louvre..., it is also one of the most structurally stable of forms, which assures its transparency, as it is constructed of glass and steel, it signifies a break with the architectural traditions of the past. It is a work of our time.” – I.M. Pei

“When I go musing all alone, Thinking of divers things fore-known, When I build castles in the air, Void of sorrow and void of fear, Pleasing myself with phantasms sweet, Methinks the time runs very fleet. All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy. When I lie waking all alone, Recounting what I have ill done, My thoughts on me then tyrannise, Fear and sorrow me surprise, Whether I tarry still or go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy”

Give me but one firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth (Archimedes)

The Literate Farmer And The Planet Venus

Vita vigilia est "to be alive is to be watchful" –pliny the elder

Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don't even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality. – Robert Anton Wilson

“the Form of Space” –Italo Calvino

11 May 1905

One’s-Self I Sing

Song of Myself

Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep

“People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.”

“the elephant in the room,” which describes the phenomenon that people deliberately avoid and ignore an apparent problem. Using “the elephant in the brain,” they try to express that we turn a blind eye to something that exists in our brain.

“Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe.” –Galileo

I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change…

Unlike our mobility through space, time locks us in the present, as prisoners, eternally trapped between our past & our future. –neil degrasse tyson

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and in action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. –Michelangelo

It does not seem to me that the human mind is capable of conceiving quite distinctly and at the same time both the distinction between mind and body, and their union; because to do so, it is necessary to conceive them as a single thing, and at the same time to conceive them as two things, which is self-contradictory. –Descartes, 1970, 142]

As truly as you see me before your eyes, so true is everything that I have written; and I could have said more had it been permitted. When you enter eternity you will see everything, and then you and I shall have much to talk about.

You are in physical existence, to learn and understand, that your energy, translated, into feelings, thought, and emotions, causes all experience. there are no exceptions. –seth

For, if you trust what you are, you can never go wrong in whatever terms you use. you can fly through belief systems as a butterfly flies through backyards. –seth (Jane Roberts)

“sea of strangers” by lang leav

 “THIS IS NOT THE AGE OF CURTSY, BARELY CIVIL STRANGERS PASSING” - Lou Reed

With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am.

This Dust Was Once the Man

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.

“In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, – no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, – my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, – all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”[22]

doppelgänger by J.A. Lindon

You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough. Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

The Chariot

gossip

chartless

I had no time to hate

Of all the other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoguhts to any other person, though very distant either in time or place, speaking with those who are in the Indies, speaking to those who are not yet born, nor shall be this thousand or ten thousand years? An with no greater difficulty than the various arrangements of two dozen little signs on paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of men… –Galileo

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances;and one man in his time plays many parts ...” –shakespeare

“You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care.” –shakespeare

love itself shall slumber on

the naming of cats by T.S. Eliott

the Botanic Garden IV

"Doth not this aethereal medium in passing out of water, glass, crystal, and other compact and dense bodies in empty spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the rays of light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve lines? ...Is not this medium much rarer within the dense bodies of the Sun, stars, planets and comets, than in the empty celestial space between them? And in passing from them to great distances, doth it not grow denser and denser perpetually, and thereby cause the gravity of those great bodies towards one another, and of their parts towards the bodies; every body endeavouring to go from the denser parts of the medium towards the rarer?" –Isaac Newton Third, Book of Opticks

Cognitive science today gets increasingly interested in the embodiment of human perception, thinking, and action. Abstract information processing models are no longer accepted as satisfactory accounts of the human mind. Interest has shifted to interactions between the material human body and its surroundings and to the way in which such interactions shape the mind. Proponents of this approach have expressed the hope that it will ultimately dissolve the Cartesian divide between the immaterial mind and the material existence of human beings (Damasio, 1994; Gallagher, 2005). A topic that seems particularly promising for providing a bridge across the mind–body cleavage is the study of bodily actions, which are neither reflexive reactions to external stimuli nor indications of mental states, which have only arbitrary relationships to the motor features of the action (e.g., pressing a button for making a choice response). The shape, timing, and effects of such actions are inseparable from their meaning. One might say that they are loaded with mental content, which cannot be appreciated other than by studying their material features. Imitation, communicative gesturing, and tool use are examples of these kinds of actions.[9] — Georg Goldenberg, "How the Mind Moves the Body: Lessons From Apraxia" in Oxford Handbook of Human Action

I should like you to consider that these functions (including passion, memory, and imagination) follow from the mere arrangement of the machine’s organs every bit as naturally as the movements of a clock or other automaton follow from the arrangement of its counter-weights and wheels. –Descartes, Treatise on Man

We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of the past and the cause of the future. An intellect which at any given moment knew all of the forces that animate nature and the mutual positions of the beings that compose it, if this intellect were vast enough to submit the data to analysis, could condense into a single formula the movement of the greatest bodies of the universe and that of the lightest atom; for such an intellect nothing could be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes. — Pierre Simon Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities

“a calm technology will move easily from the periphery of our attention, to the center, and back. This is fundamentally encalming for two reasons. First by placing things in the periphery, we are able to attune to many. More things than we could if everything had to be at the center. Things in the periphery are attuned to by the large proportion of our brains devoted to peripheral (sensory) processing. Thus, the periphery is informing without overburdening. Second, by recentering something formerly in the periphery, we take control of it. “

It is clear then that there is neither place, nor void, nor time, outside the heaven. Hence whatever is there, is of such a nature as not to occupy any place, nor does time age it; nor is there any change in any of the things which lie beyond the outermost motion; they continue through their entire duration unalterable and unmodified, living the best and most self sufficient of lives… –Aristotle

All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You don't gossip about clouds. You only gossip about other people. And once you do, you can keep track of many more people - this is the basis for forming larger communities…

Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. (p.160)

Unbreakable are links of love which faith and friendship forge among all souls discerning one another by the Light within them. Welcome indeed are they that enter with entitlement our closest circles of companionship.

One does occasionally observe a tendency for the beginning zoological textbooks to take the unwary reader by a hop, skip, and jump from the little steaming pond or the beneficent chemical crucible of the sea, into the lower world of life with such sureness and rapidity that it is easy to assume that there is no mystery about this matter at all, or, if there is, that it is a very little one. —Loren Eiseley

Perhaps design thinking makes us confused.Design feeling is the right word. –Naoto Fukasawa

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe––but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry–– poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs– is how the world works…

A Poison Tree

We came in peace for all mankind whose nineteen hundred and sixty nine years had constituted the majority of the age of Pisces— a twelfth of the Great Year that is measured by the thousand generations the precession of the earth’s axis requires to scribe a giant circle in the heavens. In the next 20 centuries, the age of Aquarius of the great year, the age for which our young people have such high hopes, humanity may begin to understand its most baffling mystery— where are we going…? –Neil Armstrong

Your mind is a medium within which th creative spark that jumps between the pattern and the world can happen. You yourself are only the medium for this creative spark, not its originator.

Chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The baby, again, the animal, they don't see the difference between what they do now and what will happen because of it. They can't make a pulley, or a promise. We can. Seeing the difference between now and not now, we can make the connection. And there morality enters in. Responsibility. To say that a good end will follow from a bad means is just like saying that if I pull a rope on this pulley it will lift the weight on that one. To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.If time and reason are functions of each other, if we are creatures of time, then we had better know it, and try to make the best of it. To act responsibly.

To you, mind of no mind, in whom the timeless way was born.

Dedicated to all people in peaceful quest of knowledge.

The middle distance fell away, so the grids (from small to large) that had supported the middle distance fell into disuse and ceased to be understandable. Two grids remained. The grid of two hundred million and the grid of intimacy. Everything else fell into disuse. –George W.S. Trow, within the context of no context

The role of an architect as still centering around the notion that the architect must assume responsibility for what is built…the study of contemporary formal problems, the ability to build within a variety of urban mediums, the knowledge of new programs, a keen knowledge of technical issues, and lastly, a deep investment in the world of culture while grasping the pregnancy of the moment. –Rafael Moneo

Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Corporeality, which he calls “corporeal form,” would then function as matter with respect to its specific form. If so, the matter, even without its specific form, would be in need of a place and would exist in actuality. Behold, my witness is in heaven, since the celestial body, which is a body without matter, is one that exists in actuality. In this way, many difficult and perplexing questions regarding hylic nature as it is generally understood will be resolved. It is open, therefore, to an objector to say that it is not a specific form through which a body exists, but that the corporeal form, which is the substratum in actuality, is that which sustains the specific form. ~Hasdai Crescas

Imagine not being able to distinguish the real cause, from that without which the cause would not be able to act, as a cause. It is what the majority appear to do, like people groping in the dark; they call it a cause, thus giving it a name that does not belong to it. That is why one man surrounds the earth with a vortex to make the heavens keep it in place, another makes the air support it like a wide lid. As for their capacity of being in the best place they could be at this very time, this they do not look for, nor do they believe it to have any divine force, but they believe that they will sometime discover a stronger and more immortal Atlas to hold everything together more, and they do not believe that the truly good and 'binding' binds and holds them together.

Tell all the truth but tell it slant

the addict

That very law which moulds a tear, and bids it trickle from its source, that law preserves the earth a sphere, and guides the planets in their course. “ –Rogers

81: True Words

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own…

Barefooted and naked of breast, I mingle with the people of the world. My clothes are ragged and dust-laden, and I am ever blissful. I use no magic to extend my life; Now, before me, the dead trees become alive.

Infinite systems exist in infinite dimensions. On account of this truth, the existence of ‘closed’ systems can be seen as false. The perceived ‘openness’ of any system is always equivalent to the frequency of consciousness pervading it. It is therefore the degree of ‘openness’ of a given system to its own multidimensional nature that directly determines the flow of energy through that system.

The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

fragments of light

The wind of relationality makes the world golden, and the participation in these relations by consciousness makes the world a river of golden butter. –Dōgen Kigen

For they say that the course of human life resembles the letter Y, because every one of men, when he has reached the threshold of early youth, and has arrived at the place "where the way divides itself into two parts," is in doubt, and hesitates, and does not know to which side he should rather turn himself. [15]

Once the moon has been made steady, the sun can be made to rise.

Alone

There is a heavenly realm of greater reality consisting in forms, ideals, or ideas.

In the knowledgeable realm, the form of the good is the last thing to be seen, and it is reached only with difficulty. Once one has seen it, however, one must conclude that it is the cause of all that is correct and beautiful in anything, that it produces both light and its source in the visible realm, and that in the intelligible realm it controls and provides truth and understanding, so that anyone who is to act sensibly in private or public must see it.

Education is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.–Aristote

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

what is love like

remedies’ remedies

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

In your consciousness everything is as you have put it, but then you discover that you are not master in your own house, you are not living alone in your own room, and there are spooks about that play havoc with your realities, and that is the end of your monarchy.

Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Two Tramps In Mud Time

Going For Water

Ghost House

Once By The Pacific

Design

A Considerable Speck

A Brook In The City

A Minor Bird

A Late Walk

Nothin gold can stay

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

The Draft Horse

“any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” (Clarke's third law)

yet, changing as it is, each language is a living picture of a culture, and a way of life.

Mirror

Freedom of the Moon

“what creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?“

"Cracks are where the light gets in." –Leonard Cohen

"Our brains are like self-cleaning ovens. Every night, they forget everything we did that day. They're designed that way so we don't wake up in the morning feeling guilty about eating an entire box of Oreos." –Jerry Seinfeld

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." –Dr. Seuss

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." with a humorous response from you below, questioning your own sanity for following such advice. –George Bernard Shaw

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” –Viktor Frankl

"The major difference between me and the paranoid is that I’m not even sure anyone is out to get me.” –Douglas Adams

"There are three kinds of people: those who learn by reading, those who learn by observation, and those who have to pee on an electric fence to learn it’s electrified." –unknown (The Unreliable Narrator)

"I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure." –Woody Allen, The Absurdity of Existence

“After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin...Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.” – Piet Hein

A Word on Statistics –Wislawa Szymborska

Why does disorder Increase in the Same Direction of Time as That in Which the Universe Expands? –Roald Hoffman

A Positive Reminder by J.A. Lindon

Past Pluperfect

On Problems

“We are most of us two people, your Highness. There is something lacking in the man who is one thing only, and so, as he believes, at peace with the world and with himself.” –Robert Aickman Quotes

Who Killed Cock Robin?

some more gruks

“About the Word Design” by Vilém Flusser

poem by quilliam

“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.” –william blake, auguries of innocence

lyrics: who will save your soul

“simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“When the power of love, overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” –Jimi Hendrix

“The moral view of violence, labeling it bad or wrong, has done little to end it.  The alternative new is to release our judgments and see violence for what it is; a form of suffering.” –Deepak Chopra

“The roots of violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles.”

“The Supreme Self of him who is self-controlled and peaceful is balanced in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, as also in honor and dishonor. Verily Yoga is not possible for him who eats too much, nor for him who does not eat at all; nor for him who sleeps too much, nor for him who sleeps to little, O Arjuna! Yoga becomes the destroyer of pain for him who is always moderate in eating, and recreation, who is moderate in exertion in actions, who is moderate in sleep and wakefulness.” –Bhagavad Gita

“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”

“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us.” –Edward Wallis Hoch

‘It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).’ –Brian P. Cleary

We all know what it feels like to be an outcast or a loner or to fall between the cracks. To be the target of gossip or people talking about you, or girls are ganging up on you. One minute, they're your best friend; the next, they call you on three-way.

I'm a weirdo. I don't leave the house unless I have to.

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.” –Marcus Aurelius

“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that... the objective world... never really exists as we see and understand it... has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it.” –Giorgio Morandi

Her Kind

Samhain by Annie Finch

Jordan (I)

metaphysical poetry: a “dissociation of sensibility,” (which resulted in works that were either intellectual or emotional but not both at once)

Leaves Compared With Flowers

The Egg and the Machine

In A Disused Graveyard

On Looking Up By Chance At The Constellations by Robert Frost

Love and a Question

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” –Chuck Klosterman

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies…”–picasso

"To discover an awakened heart within ourselves, it is crucial not to idealize or romanticize compassion. Our compassion simply grows out of our willingness to meet pain rather than to flee from it.”

“the process of exploring possibilities to discover something new” –demetri martin

“all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites.” –the Kybalion

A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body

Christmas Trees

His Coy Mistress

Desert Places

Fire and Ice

Acquainted with the Night

Tree At My Window

The Road Not Taken

on shambala warriors –joanna macy

The Garden

“the vita contemplativa is not a matter of passive affirmation and being open to whatever happens. Instead, it offers resistance to crowding, intrusive stimuli.”

“It is hard to believe we feel pain for the world if we assume we’re separate from it. The individualistic bias of Western culture supports that assumption. Feelings of fear, anger or despair about the world tend to be interpreted in terms of personal pathology. Our distress over the state of the world is seen as stemming from some neurosis, rooted perhaps in early trauma or unresolved issues with a parental figure that we’re projecting on society at large. Thus we are tempted to discredit feelings that arise from solidarity with our fellow-beings.”

“The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less fragrant, our loves less ecstaticâ but this psychic numbing also impedes our capacity to process and respond to information. The energy expended in pushing down despair is diverted from more creative uses, depleting the resilience and imagination needed for fresh visions and strategies. ”

“You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.”

“When thought is crucial, you often act without thinking. When action is necessary, you often keep on thinking without acting. All the problems in your life have their roots in one of the above.” - little bits of wisdom blog

Sonnet 116

The Definition of Love ❤︎

“..love is not simply being “feminized.” Rather, in the course of a pksitivization of all spheres of life, it is being domesticated into a consumer formula devoid of risk and daring, without excess or madness. All negativity , all negative feeling, is avoided. Passion and pain are giving way to pleasant feelings and inconsequential arousal. In the age of the “quickie” the casual encounter, and sex as stress-relief, sexuality is losing all negativity, too. The wholesale absence of negativity is degrading love into an object of consumption, a matter of hedonistic calculation. The desire for the Other is giving way to the comfort of the Same. The aim is to procure the comfortable and , ultimately, dull immanence of the wholly identical. Modern love lacks all transcendence and transgression.” –byung-chul han

24. Self-Assertion

15. Ancient Masters

People assume your gentleness must have come from an easy life. They don’t know you walked through the darkness alone and transformed your pain into power, your wounds into wisdom, the mistreatment of others into boundaries, and your generational curses into blessings.

heavy is the head that wears the crown

“the lines between good and evil run through the landscape of every human heart.”–Joanna Macy

“by lying, we deny our friends access to reality— and their resulting ignorance often harms them in ways we did not anticipate. Our friends may act on our falsehoods, or fail to solve problems that could have solved only on the basis of good information. Rather often, to lie is to infringe on the freedom of those we care about.” (p. 15)–Sam Harris

someone who pursues their own vision, forges their path with the unique skills and interests they acquire. They do not view those skills or interests as individual parts, but as an interconnected whole that are necessary aspects of their life (not temporary pieces for quick cash grabs). Their life’s work is to distill, educate, and distribute their personal experience on the path.

johm milton quotes: “A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

53. Simple and Square

“subconscious thought matches patterns, finding the best possible match of one’s past experience to the current one. It proceeds rapidly and automatically, without effort”

“The importance of forms is revealed in the inescapable unity of the body with the world…the human imagination leaps to form the whole, to complete the scene in order to make sense of it. The instantaneous way this is done shows how we are driven to construct the remainder of the scene. To fill the gaps is essential if the scene is to have meaning. That we may do this in misleading ways—at times in neurotic or paranoid ways—does not gainsay the central point. out passion for form expresses our yearning to make the world adequate to our needs and desires, and more important, to experience ourselves as having significance.”

it ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. its what you know for sure that just ain’t so - mark twain

We attract everything that we judge, until we no longer judge what we attract.” –Robert Edward Grant

“the violence of networks and virtual is viral: it is the violence of benign extermination, operating at the genetic and communicational level; a violence of consensus… A viral violence in the sense that it does not operate head0on, but by contiguity, contagion, and chain reaction, its aim being the loss of all our immunities. And also in the sense that, contrary to the historical violence of negation, this virus operates hyper-positively, like cancerous cells, through endless proliferation, excrescence, and metastases. Between virtuality and virality, there is a kind of complicity. “

melancholia and eros: attachments to loss and its phantasms never simply hold on to a fixed notion of the past; rather, the very process of narrating loss orients an impulse toward the future.

“You return those ancestral parts back to some particular zone of celestial bodies, return the totemic spirit back to nature’s realm of spirits; and then, that skinny soul of yours will step into the temporality of dream; like a barnacle, it will fix itself tightly to damp rocks full of tree ferns with a ficus above. It is as if you’ve already been there four or five thousand years ago.” (99)

Just as human eyes can experience optical illusions, Mlodinow said, emotions can malfunction, revving too high or lingering too long, or flaring up in inappropriate situations. To rein things in, Mlodinow recommends a few simple tactics: meditate; express emotions (suppression has been shown to lower life spans, he said); and change the story.

“A painter paints a picture with the same feeling as that with which a criminal commits a crime, but the commandment also expresses the timeless fear that every society harbors of its artists, poets, and saints. For they are the ones who treaten the status quo, which each society is devoted to protecting. ” –Degas

“Love, the claim goes, is foundering because of endless freedom of choice, the overabundance of options, and the compulsion for perfection. In a world of unlimited possibilities, love itself represent an impossibility. Passion, too ,is said to have grown cold. ” –Byung-chul Han

“the tired Odysseus won the love of Nausicaä. Tiredness makes you younger than you have ever been.. everything becomes extraordinary in the tranquility of tiredness”

go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company. –mark twain

Demonic Language (06.24): Most people employ symbolic language — their words stand for something real, the feelings, ideas, and beliefs they really h ave. Or they stand for concrete things in the real world. (The origin of the word symbolic lies in a Greek word meaning “to bring things together” — in this case, a word and something real.) To master the art of indirection, you need to master the opposite: diabolic language. Your words do not stand for anything real; their sound, and the feelings they evoke, are more important than what they are supposed to stand for. (The word diabolic ultimately means to separate, to throw things apart —here, words ad reality.) The more you make people focus on your sweet-sounding language, and on the illusions and fantasies it conjures, the more you diminish their contact with reality. You lead them into the clouds, where it is hard to distinguish truth from untruth, real from unreal.

“we’re a drop of water in an ocean of time”

I don't believe in art. I believe in Artists. –marcel duchamp

My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.

you can take your own poison and you can gurgle it into a tonic that allows you to rule your own world. –jordan peterson

All things are created twice. first in your mind (second in reality) - stephen convey

Parallelism

redundancy is god

In the start, lies the seed for all things that will follow. –Luis Kahn

“We know a lot more about what is wrong, what is bad, what is harmful, or what won’t work, then we know about what is right, what is good, what is beneficial, and what would work. Negative knowledge is more robust than positive knowledge.”