"what makes the desert beautiful..."

...said the little prince," is that somewhere it hides a well..."-Antoine de Saint Exupery

[g--mc]

[aristocrator]

[webspeak]

It should also be pointed out that, a priori, the proposal of innately prespecified parameters of variation in a cognitive skill is an extremely implausible biological mechanism. To my knowledge, no one has proposed anything remotely similar for any other cognitive or social skills that human beings possess. For example, such skills as music and mathematics are, like language, unique to humans and universal among human groups, with some variations. But no one has to date proposed anything like Universal Music or Universal Mathematics, and no one has as yet proposed any parameters of these abilities to explain cross-culturaldiversity (e.g.,+/- mathematical variables, which some but not all cultures use in such things as algebra – or certain tonal patterns in music). Perhaps these empirical and logical problems with parameters are the reason that many contemporary theories (e.g., Minimalism; Chomsky 1995) no longer make use of them. So parameters as theoretical constructs have not worked empirically, and the immediate prospects for progress do not seem promising.

Michael Tomasello (2005): Beyond formalities: The case of language acquisition, p. 187f. (via linguisten)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I fear my anger. So I displace it, attach it to peripheral places or people. The real problem is what to do with the anger. I have stifled it so long that I have packed it like dynamite, I have stored it and now it threatens to come out in explosions I fear.

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[zauwaz]

just behind.

[linguisten]

For tens, and perhaps hundreds, of thousands of years, people regarded language as a holy instrument that let them look out upon the world… Only in the last few decades have people suspected that their window on the world has a glass that gives a distorted view.

Peter Farb (via linguisten)

[girlfig]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it.

Deepak Chopra (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[floralls]

by Takeshi Suga | Camera Poetica | Facebook | Lost In Eternity |

[micdotcom]

Watch: Poet Kevin Yang offers 8 strong and beautiful answers to “go back to where you came from.”

[theriversandtheroads]

[prjts]

[quote-a-lyric]

December- Sara Bareilles

Submitted by: lucasribeiroxx

[floralls]

by  Ada sin h

[burnedintomyheart]

let our love burn us up. | by BURNEDINTOMYHE∆RT

[floralls]

by  sincerelyjules

[hitrecord]

“Tangled thoughts (remix)”