Human becoming/becoming human

queer cultural anthropologist and yoga enthusiast "We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human." - Hannah Arendt

[philosophybits]

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas (via philosophybits)

[dharmarainbow]

[goodreadss]

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson (via goodreadss)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

Khaled Hosseini (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Sylvia Plath

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[grayskymorning]

Forestbound

[she1is]

[twixnmix]

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe on their fire escape at West 23rd Street in NYC, 1971.

Photos by Gerard Malanga

[radicalanarchism]

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Jeffrey Tucker (via moralanarchism)

[existential-celestial]

“Love bestows innocence. It has nothing to forgive. The person loved is not the same as the person seen crossing the street or washing her face. Nor exactly the same as the person living his (or her) own life and experience, for he (or she) cannot remain innocent. Who then is the person loved? A mystery, whose identity is confirmed by nobody except the lover. How well Dostoevsky saw this. Love is solitary even though it joins. The person loved is the being who continues when the person’s own actions and egocentricity have been dissolved. Love recognises a person before the act and the same person after it. It invests this person with a value which is untranslatable into virtue.”

— John Berger, from “Between Two Colmars,” in About Looking (1980).

[lilygirlduh-blog]

witch wife by edna st vincent millay

[theoldestchorusgirlintheworld]

Having sex with someone actually is a big deal and involves a ton of vulnerability and I think it’s extremely troubling and gross and unhealthy and actually exceptionally dangerous that we pretend otherwise and encourage people to “be mature” by compartmentalizing/completely eliminating their deeper human emotions from their sexuality and that any other view is dismissed as prudish and invalid and unenlightened and childish and restrictive. I can’t think about this too much because it makes me rage but I hate how much porn and capitalism have destroyed how we understand and experience sexuality and intimate connections with one another so much.

[human-becoming]

Thanks for this. I agree, although I think we should be careful with the extent to which this perspective potentially eats us up (due to a lack of self-awareness, I would say, but also because certain notions of ‘purity’ and ‘vulnerability’ associated with sex are so easily believable). I’ve spent a significant amount of time trying to understand my post-hook up feelings: a strange mixture of guilt, self-disgust, indignity and degradation. Often, those feelings arose precisely because I gave in to the view that sex should be special, pure, and vulnerable - elements I felt were lacking in my sexual encounters. The line between being aware that every experience is an opportunity to grow and allowing such feelings to escalate into greater self-shame is so thin and I think we (women in particular) need to be cautious of that.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Nishino Yoichi aka 西野陽一 aka Yoichi Nishino (Japanese, b. 1954, Kyoto, Japan) - Unknown Title  Ink and Color on Paper

[the-book-diaries]

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (via the-book-diaries)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Juan Ramón Jiménez, tr by Robert Bly, from Selected Poems & Writings of J. R. G.; “Poetry,”

[lemortdarthur]

My idea of being in a “power couple” is to read classical literature, study the occult and work on opening up a portal to hell dimension in an abandoned haunted house, together.

[tatliruyalar]

The purest form of love, I think, is having someone who wants to learn about you, from you and with you.