ॐ गम गणपतये नमः

[whats-out-there]

[oceanandwave-deactivated2018032]

If any individual considers himself enlightened, then he is not. The precondition of enlightenment is that the identified individual self has been annihilated. No personal self or individual phenomenon has ever been enlightened. The person disappears along with all other phenomena when he awakens from this dream of existence. Our lives are in fact being lived for us rather than by us as we seem to think. All our experience, if carefully analyzed, would clearly show that volition is really not a significant factor in our lives. Only the most minute fraction of our total physical and mental functioning even appears to be subject to volition. Did you exercise volition when you were conceived? And when the conceived material grew in the mother’s womb? How long can you live without sleep, without food and water? How long can you go without the excretory movements of the body? How do you breathe and digest your food? Do you have the absolute certainty of remaining alive for even the next five minutes on the strength of your own volition.

Ramesh Balsekar (via oceanandwave)

[westdesertsage]

Human culture is still rooted in farming.

Gene Logsdon (via westdesertsage)

[veritablehokum]

Source (and, as usual, descriptions of all those glowing folks up there): http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/the-egyptian-god-family-tree/

EDIT: Oh also! I’m selling posters now! Including this one! http://store.veritablehokum.com/products/the-egyptian-god-family-tree

[pagan-kitty]

@kittykittycat1

[thewriterkb]

[did-you-know]

“I knew what it was like to be hurt,” she said. “The many times that that happened, I wish someone would have stood up for me.”

“But violence is violence - nobody deserves to be hurt, especially not for an idea.”

“For the most part, people who hurt… they come from hurt. It is a cycle. Let’s say they had killed him or hurt him really bad. How does [his] son feel? Does he carry on the violence?”

At the time, she was 18 years old.

Source

[astarininazu]

To be saved by your enemy? This man must have learned his lesson.

[ultrafacts]

Steven Spazuk is a Canada-based artist who uses candle soot to create elegant drawings. After depositing soot on his media with a candle or torch, he etches lines and patterns in the soot with  pencils and feathers.

Though Spazuk has spent the last 14 years developing and perfecting his soot painting technique, the creation process always has an element of random spontaneity and improvisation.

http://www.spazuk.com/fr/home-spazuk.php

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[archatlas]

Stev'nn Hall

A small sampling of the impressionistic mixed media landscapes by Stev'nn Hall you will find on his tumblr and website. 

Check out this tumblr!

[mirzsa-zs-deactivated20170124]

Does a man ridicule me? That’s his business. It’s my job to make sure that nothing I say or do deserves to be ridiculed. Will he hate me? His business again. Mine is to remain gentle and well disposed toward everyone, ready to show even this fellow the mistake in his thinking, not in a scolding tone or with a show of forbearance, but graciously and genuinely…

Marcus Aurelius / The Emperor’s Handbook (via zueshasalightsaber)

[milk-cake]

M. C. Escher - Metamorphose II

[radiantdissent]

[georgetyerbyter]

M. C. Escher

[purplebuddhaproject]

Life is not a problem to be solved, nor a question to be answered. Life is a mystery to be experienced.

 Alan Watts (via purplebuddhaproject)

[ancientpeoples]

Gazelle-head spouted vessel (zoom in)

Iran or Afghanistan, Sasanian period (4th century AD)

Vessels made entirely or in part in the shape of an animal, in both metal and ceramic versions, have a long history in ancient Iran.  Only a few examples of this vessel type, however, have surfaced among artifacts of the Sasanian period (ca. 224–651). Chiefly influenced by Roman and Byzantine prototypes and to some extent by Central Asian styles, Sasanian silver plate seldom drew on traditional Iranian vessel forms.  Horned animals, such as the ram and this gazelle, appear as quarry on some of the Sasanian silver and gilt plates depicting a royal hunt.  With its animal-shaped protome (forepart) joined to a compact horn and furnished with a spout through the animal’s mouth, this is an extremely rare example dating from the Sasanian period.  This type of vessel embodies an important image and concept: a special liquid, probably wine, was contained in and dispensed from the mouth of an animal that itself held powerful, royal connotations. 

Source: Freer-Sackler Galleries

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Silent, not from embarassment or any other reason, but simply silent.

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries Of Franz Kafka: 1910 - 1923  (via kafkaesque-world)

[spinallyspiraling]

[sci-universe]

Where to find aliens? In the bottom of the ocean

3.7 km (2.3 miles) under the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and southern Japan, an extraordinary jellyfish was discovered during the deepwater exploration conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and partners.

I have scrolled past images of the amazing creature before, but I honestly thought it was a photoshopped spaceship.

The hydromedusa, not a spacecraft, was captured by the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) aboard the Okeanos Explorer ship and has been identified as belonging to the genus Crossota. The exact species remains a mystery.

It has two sets of tentacles — short and long. The long tentacles are even and and when extended, the bell does not move. This suggests an ambush predation mode. Within the bell, the radial canals in red are connecting points for what looks like the gonads in bright yellow.

video credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas