sonder

as everyone, trying to figure out life

[docendoediscimus]

The last lines of the Divine Comedy (in order; Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), Dante Alighieri.

[magic-of-eternity]

Lago di Como. Italy

[aidashakur]

Is anyone else in a weird state of mind right now ? Like everything is fine but everything’s not fine

[chefsreviews]

before going to istanbul

[naprasno]

omg another exhausting day of doing the bare minimum

[chefsreviews]

my first days in albania

[chefsreviews]

if there is no life after death, I will create it to meet you.

[finita--la--commedia]

“The best way to travel, after all, is to feel, To feel everything in every way, To feel everything excessively, Because all things are, in truth, excessive And all reality is an excess, a violence, An extraordinarily vivid hallucination.”

— Fernando Pessoa (1880-1935), from “Ode Marítima”, translated by David G. Frier in: “Pessoa in an Intertextual Web. Influence and Innovation”

[ruinsmami]

you ever get those random mood swings where you’re not yourself for like 3 days straight

[distourted]

“influencer” sounds like a dystopian term

[corpsegirlforever]

It is

[chefsreviews]

[oumaimas]

Morning Poem, Mary Oliver

[oumaimas]

Whelks, Mary Oliver

[egyptiaca]

“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.”

— E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art (via wnq-art)

[katbelleinthedark]

sweden: is it too late for love

denmark: love is forever

iceland: hate will prevail

[a-room-of-my-own]

Are you OK Scandinavia?

[pardonmyfrench-bitch]

Me, when my mood switches every 5 minutes during a breakdown

[bedabug]

I am in love with the trend of bored Architects photoshopping increasingly ridiculous ideas for the Notre Dame roof

the community pool one tho is art

[bedabug]

[vaguelywatermarksthesky]

That’s just the baptism tank

[just-shower-thoughts]

A lot of bugs probably eat fake grass and are like “what the fuck is this reckless debauchery”

[endocathexis]

Source

[luxe-pauvre]

“… I can tell you why “be yourself” is such terrible advice. The first problem with it is that it is an impossible task: a holistic self does not exist; we are made of many selves that are revealed through endless experimentation and self-examination. […] The second problem is that today’s popular notion of the self mistakes feelings and desires for self-knowledge. Heidegger thought (extremely roughly) that knowledge of one’s authentic self could be found through the consideration of our own mortality: that feeling you might get after you have a near-death experience. As the contemporary philosopher Simon Critchley put it in The Guardian, “if we want to understand what it means to be an authentic human being, then it is essential that we constantly project our lives onto the horizon of our death… Mortality is that in relation to which we shape and fashion our selfhood.” […] My editor asked me if the mandate to “be yourself” has negatively affected culture. The answer is a 100 percent affirmative yes. I emailed William Swann, a psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, to ask if he could offer a better saying than “be yourself,” and his response was very good and directly relates to this. “A nice piece of advice for someone who thinks it is a good thing to ‘be yourself’ is to watch the speech given by the leader of the free world last weekend,” he wrote. “Giving some people license to be themselves can encourage performances that are painful to watch.””

— Leah Finnegan, “Be yourself” is terrible advice