[a-and-art]

March 27, 1848

By Henry David Thoreau

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest man thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

[cybxrminded]

some fun things to do when bored

research about revolutions and wars on the floor

or just lay on the floor. the floor is always good

fold paper covered in cursive writing into little origami shapes

put on two random pieces of clothing and see how much you can accessorize it

find some mud. draw in it with a stick or even your hands. stomp in it. get dirty and enjoy the feeling when you wash it off and get clean again

practice your WWE moves with your pillows. work through that anger you have towards that one awful class

rearrange the mess that is your desk so that it's a new mess

plan out your schoolwork in a planner then doodle on the pages

pick up a book and perform it out loud. bonus points if you use different voices for each character

put on eyeliner and mascara and then cry, dramatically looking at yourself in a mirror like you are heroine in your favorite story experiencing heartbreak

make a playlist compiled of songs that do not fit together at all, but make them fit somehow. tchaikovsky and falling in reverse? gotta have some similarities somewhere

research about five different things at once, multiple tabs open, papers strewn around the room about various historical events

[philosophybits]

“There is no need for man to move according to a carefully-considered plan. This is a purely aesthetic demand which need not bind us. Let man senselessly and deliriously knock his head against the wall — if the wall go down at last, will he value his triumph any the less? Unfortunately for us the illusion has been established in us that plan and purpose are the best guarantee of success. What a delusion it is! The opposite is true. The best of all that genius has revealed to us has been revealed as the result of fantastic, erratic, apparently ridiculous and useless, but relentlessly stubborn seeking.”

— Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible

[byronicreader]

Parents who destroy their children’s lives, who suck the life out of their children’s futures, not only for the sake of maintaining their own illusions but also to zealously expand them into the lives of their children—such parents can almost be understood from the perspective of obsession. Following the words “Be grateful I raised you” is the implied clause “instead of killing you or leaving you for dead.” They probably mean it, too. My parents and their parents’ generations, after surviving the Korean War, had always, just like the generation that survived World War II, set their purpose not to live a human life but to have an animal’s instinct for survival.

- Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur.

[entheognosis]

[entheognosis]

“Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.”

— Rajneesh

[entheognosis]

“Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it: They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”

—

Anaïs Nin

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

[entheognosis]

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up.”

— Joseph Campbell

[goblinsbriide]

#mood in every lecture

[goblinsbriide]

AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN in AE DIL HAI MUSHKIL

[goblinsbriide]

Do you do anything but talk?

[thepersonalquotes]

[bookville]

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”

— Louise Glück, Nostos. (via askios)

[eatpussypraylove]

Sometimes as a woman it’s important for you to wake up late and be alone in the house on a cloudy cold day with your feelings.

[oyeevarnika]

Cloth bound Classics🫁

Me when !??? 😩

[lilithsorchid]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

[superstarfighter]

a murakami protagonist day*

do the dishes

make your bed

read a book in silence

get the groceries for one or two meals

have a beer

go for a walk

(get a phone call from nobody)

follow a cat through the neighborhood

do the laundry

change your sheets

sit on your couch and listen to a full album

take a shower

sit on your balcony at night

go to a diner alone and have a bite to eat

watch people from afar

take a train to the next town

call an old friend

clean your room or house

take a nap

have a cup of tea

paint or draw

air out the room

stretch or do yoga

(* murakami’s descriptions of his protagonists’ day to day lives always seem so mundane and calming to me that I thought I’d list a few activities that fit right in and might calm me, too.)