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Joey Badass By Andrew Barber

[onedopepope-blog]

And that feeling might be transient, but I think it’s what we live for

Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration and this is where I think language came from. I mean, it came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. And it had to be easy when it was just simple survival. Like you know, “water.“ We came up with a sound for that. Or saber tooth tiger right behind you. We came up with a sound for that. But when it gets really interesting I think is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we’re experiencing. What is like… frustration? Or what is anger or love? When I say love, the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person’s ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brain through their memories of love or lack of love, and they register what I’m saying and they say yes, they understand. But how do I know they understand? Because words are inert. They’re just symbols. They’re dead, you know? And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It’s unspeakable. And yet you know, when we communicate with one another and we feel that we have connected and we think that we’re understood I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think it’s what we live for.

Kim Krizan, 

[kylepikus]

“If you started in the wrong way,” I said in answer to the investigator’s questions, “everything that happened would be a proof of the conspiracy against you. It would all be self-validating. You couldn’t draw a breath without knowing it was part of the plot.”

“So you think you know where madness lies?” 

My answer was a convinced and heartfelt, “Yes.” 

“And you couldn’t control it?” 

“No I couldn’t control it. If one began with fear and hate as the major premise, one would have to go on the conclusion.” 

“Would you be able,” my wife asked, “ to fix your attention on what The Tibetan Book of the Dead calls the Clear Light?” 

I was doubtful. 

“Would it keep the evil away, if you could hold it? Or would you not be able to hold it?” 

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[ventanasoltas]

[kylepikus]

Kind of Blue Cameron-Pikus Collaborations Photo by Jamie Bisbee

[insane---world]

[sndtrk0fth3da1]

[themaninthegreenshirt]

That will always be my music, man. I play ‘Kind of Blue’ every day – it’s my orange juice. It still sounds like it was made yesterday.

Quincy Jones (Happy 56th Birthday to Kind of Blue)

[70sbestblackalbums]

Miles Ahead

[kylepikus]

[kylepikus]

After the honeymoon is over — it’s after the desire systems that were dormant in the relationship that have the attraction in it pass  and all of it passes — then you are left with the work to do.  And it’s the same work.   When you trade in one partner for another, you still have the same work.  You’re going to have to do it sooner or later when the pizzazz is over.  And it just keeps going over.  And you can’t milk the romanticism of relationship too long as you become more conscious.  It’s more interesting than that.  It really is.  And people keep wanting to romanticize their lives all the time.  It’s part of the culture.  But the awakening process starts to show you the emptiness of that forum.  And you start to go for something deeper.  You start to go to meet another human being in truth.  And truth is scary.  Truth has bad breath at times; truth is boring; truth burns the food; truth is all the stuff.  Truth has anger; truth has all of it.  And you stay in it and you keep working with it and your keep opening to it and you keep deepening it.  Every time you trade in a partner, you realize that there’s no good or bad about it.  I’m not talking good or bad about this. But you begin to see how you keep coming to the same place in relationships, and then you tend to stop.  Because it gets too heavy.  Because your identity gets threatened too much.  For the relationship to move to the next level of truth requires an opening and a vulnerability that you’re not quite ready to make.  And so you entrench, you retrench, you pull back and then you start to judge and push away and then you move to the next one.  And then you have the rush of the openness and then the same thing starts to happen.  And so you keep saying “Where am I going to find the one when this doesn’t happen?”  And it will only happen when it doesn’t happen in you.  When you start to take and watch the stuff and get quiet enough inside yourself, so you can take that process as it’s happening and start to work with it.  And keep coming back to living truth in yourself or the other person even though it’s scary and hard.

[secretdreamlife]

[mikkolagerstedt]

The Approaching Night

[corropt]

[lovetheworldlife]

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