April 2013
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You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...
– Aaron Freeman
March 2013
1 post
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and I don’t know the kind...
– A Ritual To Read To Each Other (William Stafford)
November 2012
2 posts
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The hacker class, being numerically small and not owning the means of...
– McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto
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Waves of mycelial networks intersect and permeate through one another. This...
– Paul Stamets, 1999
July 2012
3 posts
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We see in order to move; we move in order to see.
– William Gibson
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We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines,...
– Terence McKenna
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a...
– Terence McKenna
May 2012
1 post
But the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even...
– Bill Mollison, Introduction to Permaculture
April 2012
1 post
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I hold the most archaic values on earth … the fertility of the soul, the...
– Gary Snyder
March 2012
1 post
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The center is not the center. The concept of centered structure-although it...
– Derrida, Jacques. Structure, Sign, Play
February 2012
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A still life is a static state filled with vibratory motion, or resonance. A...
– Kathleen Stewart, Ordinary Affects, p. 19.
November 2011
1 post
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against policy (a tiny manifesto):
The notion of “policy” presumes a state or...
– David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
September 2011
1 post
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back— Concerning...
– Goethe
August 2011
1 post
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A tree house, a free house,
A secret you and me house,
A high up in the leafy...
– “Tree House,” Shel Silverstein
July 2011
4 posts
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facebook is the panopticon.
Me: "Why is my camera on?"
[...]
Me: *clicks Facebook tab*
Me: *green light disappears*
Jehan: "Mark Zuckerberg is watching you."
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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work...
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés (via Rebekah)
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Our best machines are made of sunshine.
– Donna Haraway
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One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a...
– Edward Abbey
June 2011
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ph.d dropout?
AL: wait, you quit? 0_o
Jenny Ryan: not exactly.
Jenny Ryan: i took a leave of absence.
AL: oh hm
AL: taking a break?
AL: or... got any plan?
Jenny Ryan: http://jennyryan.net
Jenny Ryan: you could say that
AL: the pyre COOL
Jenny Ryan: my advisor didn't get it..
AL: #FAIL
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(8 Feb 1996): In the United States, you have today created a law, the...
– John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
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Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate—but there is no competition—
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
There is a time for the evening under starlight,
A time for the evening under lamplight
(The evening with the photograph album).
Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...
– Albert Camus
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i do it for the joy it brings
because i’m a joyful girl
because the...
– joyful girl, ani difranco
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based...
– Albert Einstein
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Rhetoric is the practice of learning and teaching eloquence, persuasion, and...
– Richard Doyle
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The essential idea is that cities are places of opportunity and possibility...
– (via provisionaluniversity)
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I understand, all right. The hopeless dream of being - not seeming, but being....
– Persona (1966)
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Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...
– Jim Jarmusch (via somalogue)
May 2011
3 posts
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Even after all this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
“You owe...
– Hafiz
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by...
– Oscar Wilde (via Jacqueline)
God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
– Alan Watts
April 2011
6 posts
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And in our quiet hour,
I feel I see everything,
and am in love with the...
– Joanna Newsom, Good Intentions Paving Company
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...
– Marianne Williamson
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This We Have Now
This we have now
is not imagination.
This is not
grief or...
– Rumi
~making astromythological maps~
Diagram 3 – The 13 Days/Nights (Heavens) of the 9th Wave.
http://stevebeckow.com/2011/04/on-april-14-we-enter-the-second-day-of-the-ninth-wave/
1st Day – 9 March 2011 to 26 March 2011
This is the ‘Seeding’ phase of the 9th Wave. We take our knowledge and wisdom from the last 16.4 billion years and embark on the journey through the last year of the Mayan...
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Those who don’t feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those who don’t...
– Rumi (via Jacqueline)
March 2011
12 posts
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Rather, in experimental ethnography, pursuit of the other becomes problematic,...
– Kamala Visweswaran
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We know who we are. We are the dispossessed, the outcasts, and the outsiders,...
– Antero Alli (via Neşe Lisa Şenol)
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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open...
– Rumi
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I say again that, because we don’t expect to overthrow governments,...
– Daniel Quinn, Beyond Civilization
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Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and...
– T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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It’s hard to tell young people that universities recognize that their...
– Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful...
– Albert Einstein
it's the kind of thing makes you want to quit your...
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The Mahayanas say ‘You’re little vehicle just gets a few people who...
– Alan Watts, “The World as Emptiness”
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The idea there is that we have gone sick by following a path of untrammelled...
– Terence McKenna, Eros & Eschaton
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Teach things that let new patterns in that can change how you learn.
– Richard Saul Wurman
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I awake in the morning torn between
a desire to save the world
and a desire to...
– E.B. White (via Rebekah Uccellini)