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“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.”

“When inspiration has become hidden, when we feel ready to give up, this is the time when healing can be found in the tenderness of pain itself… In the midst of loneliness, in the midst of fear, in the middle of feeling misunderstood and rejected is the heartbeat of all things.”

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeQD9QwYC5M)

The artist MILCK organized these guerilla-style a Capella performances at the Women’s March. The video gives me chills and is the perfect anthem for the movement.

#icantkeepquiet

A poem from the Notes section of the Seattle Review of Books

Since you mention it, I think I will start that race war.

I could’ve swung either way? But now I’m definitely spending the next 4 years converting your daughters to lesbianism; I’m gonna eat all your guns. Swallow them lock stock and barrel and spit bullet casings onto the dinner table;

#poetry #feminism

Best of 2016

View Sound Waves from Inside a Guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyHjY5HB21g&feature=share

#sound waves

'Hallelujah' on Ancient Korean Instrument = Heaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftnRgIl2FVw&feature=share

Before you know what kindness really is

you must lose things,

feel the future dissolve in a moment

like salt in a weakened broth.

We will acknowledge this result, but we will not accept it. We will overcome it, and we will defeat it.

#lovetrumpshate

#quotes

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc)

Very inspiring.

"For the past 33 years, I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, ‘if today was the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm about to do today?’ And whenever the answer's been 'no' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

#steve jobs #graduation speech #inspirational quotes

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NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN “Ghost” Octopus

pigment-less octopus found via remote operated vehicle northeast of Hawaii’s Necker Island by NOAA scientists on the Okeanos Explorer on 2/27/16 at a depth of 4,290 meters.

Love this video.

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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

Sylvia Plath (via disbar)

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bringing the rainbow to the runway #ootd #hydratethehustle #creatrs exclusive art by james curran

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For those of you with anxiety

here’s a website that translates the time into hexidecimal colours,

here is a website where you can create your own galaxies

here is a website where you can play flow

here you can interact with organisms in different environments to see how to music changes

here you can play silk which is an interactive generative art designing website.

Here is a website where you can travel along a 3D line into the infinite unkown

here is a website where you can listen to rain with or without music

There is now a part two!

The first step to take is to become aware that love is an art, just as living is an art; if we want to learn how to love we must proceed in the same way we have to proceed if we want to learn any other art, say music, painting, carpentry, or the art of medicine or engineering. What are the necessary steps in learning any art? The process of learning an art can be divided conveniently into two parts: one, the mastery of the theory; the other, the mastery of the practice. If I want to learn the art of medicine, I must first know the facts about the human body, and about various diseases. When I have all this theoretical knowledge, I am by no means competent in the art of medicine. I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice, until eventually the results of my theoretical knowledge and the results of my practice are blended into one — my intuition, the essence of the mastery of any art. But, aside from learning the theory and practice, there is a third factor necessary to becoming a master in any art — the mastery of the art must be a matter of ultimate concern; there must be nothing else in the world more important than the art. This holds true for music, for medicine, for carpentry — and for love. And, maybe, here lies the answer to the question of why people in our culture try so rarely to learn this art, in spite of their obvious failures: in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power — almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving.

Philosopher Erich Fromm on the Art of Loving and What Is Keeping Us from Mastering It | Brain Pickings

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