Gymnopedies

The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

[philosophybits]

If there is a solution, then what is the point of dejection? What is the point of dejection if there is no solution?

Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (6:10)

[colin-vian]

  Ellsworth Kelly

[gacougnol]

Tomio Seike

Waterscapes #07

Romsey #02

1997

[intheandrogynousdark]

#ripples

[gacougnol]

Ehagaki Sekai The Fukujuso Plant 1909 Postcard, lithograph, ink on card stock

[intheandrogynousdark]

A kid story from another cluster

The kid who grew up with holy stories, for me it wasn’t that hard to reach Christ. I’d had my first talk with him through my first round of Bible. The light travelling through the air-spoken word, he had that. I wonder how he could even walk around being in love. 

But a better question is for him, how did he take his faith when it rang for him? Anyone a messenger at least once has given their entire timeline and purpose, that inspired the walks of art and design. 

Life from non judgmental viewpoint, that what he had and I do not think he was crying for dying but crying of joy because he was going back to Beloved. 

[intheandrogynousdark]

211220

It was lightyears ago when the last time I was about to die. 

Courtesy of the universe, it came to me through Bergman and mother. I saw many ways that could go wrong with it but self destruction has been an easy feat of mine. 

Some beings never wanted to live on the earth and I found it as natural acceptance, until I encountered the shallow version of survival of the fittest. Perhaps unlearning the good, the bad and the ugly required the shallow waters. Because earth was stupid in their eyes, acted stupid and needed a balancing action. Perhaps the desire that was already ingrained caused my contradictions.

Was I really there through, when it was all happening for me and to me?

I wouldn’t give an honest answer.

[existentialcomicsfeed]

Three Little Philosophers of Science

[gacougnol]

Karel Cudlin Israel

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Sergey Lebedev

[intheandrogynousdark]

#winterlament

[yama-bato]

Rupprecht Geiger

Aus: Geiger - PYR

,                                                            1962                                                

[intheandrogynousdark]

#hypergiant

[spiritualityquotes]

Nature can look after the needs of people. It cannot look after the greed of people. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

[quotebook-in]

[zzzze]

Andrei Tarkovsky Instant Light, 1970s ( Polaroids)

[theliteraryjournals]

My library is an archive of longings.

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh (via theliteraryjournals)

[philosophybits]

The one who knows what is good, and not the man who knows many things, is wise.

Aeschylus, Fragments, 271 (via philosophybits)

[philosophybits]

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms (via philosophybits)

[intheandrogynousdark]

Roland Barthes's famous essay "The Death of the Author" (1967) is a meditation on the rules of author and reader as mediated by the text. Barthes's essential argument is that the author has no sovereignty over his own words (or images, sounds, etc.) that belong to the reader who interprets them. When we encounter a literary text, says Barthes, we need not ask ourselves what the author intended in his words but what the words themselves actually say. Text employ symbols which are deciphered by readers, and since function of the text is to be read, the author and process of writing is irrelevant.