Saskia

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Shalom Harlow, Ellen von Unwerth

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Church of the Gesù, Palermo

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(cambio sun)

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“You always get what you focus on. If you become very attached to achieving goals, to the point of needing them, you can start focusing on trying to avoid not achieving them. Your focus on trying to avoid failing to achieve them can actually obstruct your goals from flowing into your life; you will actually be focusing on not achieving them. And again, this kind of focus can also shift your intent from love and abundance to fear and scarcity.

Embracing the new makes it possible to desire things without becoming attached to whether you achieve them. You can be detached and still be very determined. When detached, you take action in the moment, notice how things change and then choose new actions in the next moment. You are willing to welcome new, unexpected events and things into your life. You are embracing the new, melting into the magnificent moment and trusting that you will get what you want in the perfect way at the perfect time. To approach manifestation in this way is to have faith in the abundant nature of the universe.

When attracting what you want, never demand when you should receive as this can postpone it!”

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Cognitive distortions/ advanced cognitive styles 

Over-generalizing / contextual thinking

All or nothing thinking /both-and thinking, in-between thinking 

Labeling/ reality-testing thinking 

Blaming/ responsibility thinking 

Mind-reading/ current sensory information 

Prophesying/ tentative predictive thinking 

Emotionalizing / witness thinking or non-emotionalizing, detective/clarity thinking

Personalizing/ objective thinking

awfulizing/ meta-cognitive thinking 

shoulding/choice thinking

filtering/ perspective thinking

impossiblity thinking, can’t thinking/possibility thinking

discounting/ appreciative thinking

identifying/ e-prime/ de-identifying thinking 

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A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about them.

Lisa Kleypas  (via thelovejournals)

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The listener in the concert hall immersed in the sound of the symphony locates each event in relation to the whole. In contrast, a radio broadcast presents discrete events in a sequence, focusing attention on single musical details at a time rather than on the form in and intensity of the symphony a dramatic or character in dialogue which is missing from the more narrative version provided  by the radio.

Adorno, A Guide for the Perplexed 

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In the postmodern, the aesthetic experience is all too often not based on perception, but on a flow (to borrow a term from Jameson) with the spatial environments of late capitalism. Jameson gives the interesting analogy of walking through a museum in which one does not heed individual works but rather catches glimpses of colors and shades “in passing.

http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/the-importance-of-being-autonomous

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In all art that is still possible, social critique must be raised to the level of form, to the point that it wipes out all manifestly social content.

Adorno

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Adorno emphasizes that art, by virtue of its very autonomy, expresses opposition to the society from which it cannot be separated. It is this notion of art’s autonomy that establishes a Marxist defense of art for art’s sake, suggesting, as it does, the dialectical nature of such a defense; for art at once both opposes society and exists as a product of society. The question is whether or not art can more specifically oppose social relations while simultaneously being a commodity of social relations. The autonomy of art is thus a lie that art tells itself, which paradoxically contains a truth. Art, according to Adorno, can never be truly autonomous and yet it must take on that status in order to criticize society.

http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/the-importance-of-being-autonomous

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Tell me how to feel and I will feel it. Make me into a socket. I want to bleed electricity on the shadow of the world.

Melissa Broder, Cosmic Ditch from “Last Sext” (via mythaelogy)

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Mathematicians, Musicians and Chess Masters

There are quite a few chess players who have also excelled in mathematics and/or music.