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"Whatever you think you are, that's not it."     Adyashanti

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[famouspainterwombat]

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“Onze ervaring van de buitenwereld wordt meestal vertroebeld door de verbale opvattingen waarin we denken. We proberen altijd dingen om te zetten in symbolen van de meer abstracte begrippen van onze eigen uitvinding. Maar door dit te doen, beroven we de dingen voor een groot deel van hun oorspronkelijke wezen.”

Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception.

[eerieclam]

[philosophybits]

“It is only up to a certain point that possessions make men more independent and free; one step further — and the possessions become master, the possessor becomes a slave: as which he must sacrifice to them his time and his thoughts and henceforth feel himself obligated to a society, nailed to a place and incorporated into a state none of which perhaps meets his inner and essential needs.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, 317

[the-evil-clergyman]

Pandora by Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1908)

[perplexingly]

I was watching this video about the usage of tar in history (it’s in Polish and without subs, sorry), and this part spoke to me

[the-paradigm-web]

[derfunz]

[radical-revolution]

“One night, since I couldn’t sleep, I went up to the meditation hall, and sat all through the night. I was just sitting with raw pain with almost no thoughts about it. Then something happened: I had a completely clear insight that my whole personality, my whole ego-structure, was based on not wanting to go to this groundless place. Everything I did, the way I smiled, the way I talked to people, the way I tried to please everybody—it was all to avoid feeling this way. I realized that our whole façade, the little song and dance we all do, is based on trying to avoid the groundlessness that permeates our lives. By learning to stay, we become very familiar with this place, and gradually, gradually, it loses its threat. Instead of scratching, we stay present. We’re no longer invested in constantly trying to move away from insecurity.

We think that facing our demons is reliving some traumatic event or discovering for sure that we’re worthless. But, in fact, it is just abiding with the uneasy, disquieting sensation of nowhere-to-run and finding that—guess what?—we don’t die; we don’t collapse. In fact, we feel profound relief and freedom.” ~Pema Chödrön

[bowlby4]

“They’re having problems with their economy again” (1975) by Ron Cobb.

[vintage-tigre]

Kate Bush, the sovereign of art-pop drama, photographed in Italy, 1978, by Angelo Deligio.

This moody promotional shoot marked the release of The Kick Inside, her debut album, home to Wuthering Heights, that high-pitched, haunting masterpiece that would become one of her eternal signatures.

Kate was just 19 here, but already a seasoned creator.

She'd been writing songs since age 11 (yes, on cassette tapes, analog dreams!), helped by her brothers. One of those tapes made its way into the hands of a family friend... who then casually handed it to David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. Gilmour, struck by her eerie brilliance, financed professional demos and slipped them to EMI while recording Wish You Were Here at Abbey Road. EMI executives listened to the demos and the rest is history.

[kellymagovern]

Osho "Be Still and Know," Discourse 1 (September 1, 1979)

These talks from the late 1970's are my favorite from Osho. He was so pure and so clean during this time period. Not that I dislike his 1980's talks. Of course, I love all his talks from every time, but the late 1970's were amazing.

[thirdity]

“One is everywhere trapped between a literal and an ironic reading. A more or less conscious calculation that aims to disorientate any value judgement. It is particularly flagrant in the field of art, where this studied vagueness as to how a work is to be read has supplanted illusion and aesthetic judgement. Deep down, however, it is reality itself that has become so banal and insignificant that it has induced us into an ironic reading. It has become so homogenized that it breaks off from itself into a parallel reality. It is out of nostalgia that we embed it in another order: in the face of this insignificance, we are forced to hypothesize a more subtle realm beyond, a dimension beyond our grasp. A critical masochism by which all the speculative arts have found success.”

— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V

[bbrothertedd]

[supplyside]

the making of Blade Runner

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