February 2012
1 post
January 2012
1 post
“J’aime la solitude, à condition qu’un ami vienne m’en parler...”
– Bunuel
December 2011
1 post
“The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest...”
– Carl Sagan
September 2011
1 post
“For it is a book that will only open itself to spiritual understanding, and this...”
– Carl Jung
July 2011
1 post
Chris Stamey
May 2011
1 post
March 2011
4 posts
“Jesus knew — knew — that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with...”
– Zooey (from Salinger’s Franny and Zooey)
February 2011
4 posts
Varieties of Religious Experience
Selections from William James’ thoughtful lectures on religious experience. This work is in the public domain.
“There are moments of sentimental and mystical experience … that carry an enormous sense of inner authority and illumination with them when they come. But they come seldom, and they do not come to everyone; and the rest of life makes either no connection with them,...
January 2011
8 posts
“The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the...”
– Albert Einstein on spirituality
“A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time...”
– Albert Einstein on humanity
The thoughts running through my mind
Start running. Muscles heating up, loosening. Breathing synchronizes. Eventually, I’m running out of breath. The rhythm of my running deepens. My thoughts become clearer; my thinking is quicker. As I accept and commit to the physical strain and release doubt, my stride becomes more confident. The pattern of my breath and my steps sends my mind into a meditative state. From which I am...
Some of my favorite well-worn cliques
You’ve heard these sayings for most of your life but they seem to take on different meaning/significance in different contexts. Here are a few that I have been recalling over the past couple months (they are best in small doses):
Follow you heart/gut
Know thyself
Conquer yourself rather than the world
Love is the answer
Great minds think alike
A house is not a home
All things must...
“Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth...”
– Neil Postman on Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World
“The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those...”
– Alan Watts from The Wisdom of Insecurity
December 2010
7 posts
tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
“Love For Sale” sung by Shirley Horn,...
“It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
“Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very, very best he is a sort of...”
– Mark Twain in Letters from the Earth
Listen
November 2010
3 posts
Sights in the City
New York is one the world’s greatest cities and home to some of the greatest works of art. Besides the city itself (its architecture, rapid pace, fragmented nature, etc.), I am excited to see paintings. While there are many popular favorites at the Museum of Modern Art, such as Starry Night and the Persistence of Memory, I am looking forward to seeing*:
Chagall’s I and the Village
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I watched some of the new Nilsson documentary.
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October 2010
7 posts
A terribly reductionist interpretation of life...
…asserts that perception and expression, interaction with our perceived world, account for the entirety of our experience. Even though significance beyond this view cannot be scientifically proven, cognition, religion, and philosophy attempt to create meaning and significance.
Love and fear, products of our neurobiology, offer utilitarian motivations. For instance, love yields positive...
“The history of art is the progression of perception.”
– George A.
“Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.”
– Lou Reed
Watch2020:
QPC - Articulated Naturality Web (by Justin Montgomery)
September 2010
3 posts
Re: suicidenote.info
Yesterday, I read some of the suicide note written by the guy who killed himself at Harvard (suicidenote.info) less out of morbid fascination than philosophical curiosity. The “punchline” resulted in a sadly rudimentary argument for nihilism/suicide in which the author, through a series of reductionist fallacies, wrote off pleasure, happiness, emotions, and desire as evolutionary...
Electronic music is hit-or-miss; a low percentage...
Used to know a postmodernist
How many deconstructionists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Even the framing of this question makes a grid of patriarchal assumptions that reveals a slavish devotion to phallocentric ideas - such as, technical accomplishment has inherent value, knowledge can be attained and quantities of labor can be determined empirically, all of which makes a discourse which further marginalizes the...
April 2010
5 posts
2 tags
Space Art “Watch It”
“President Obama is expected to defend his vision for NASA and present some...”
– Obama’s Revised Space Plan: Build Rocket, Save Orion (via 2020)
Election 2012: Obama 42%, Ron Paul 41% →
Vote for Change!
March 2010
15 posts
David Bowie’s “The Prettiest...
