#on thinking

[metamorphesque]

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky The Contradictory and The Inconsequential, E. M. Cioran (translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston)

[stargir1z]

Deleuze: Some Common Misunderstandings by Peter Wolfendale

[tamsoj]

By thinking, I made of myself both echo and abyss. By going deeper inside myself, I became many.

Fernando Pessoa, tr. by Margaret Jull Costa, from “The Book of Disquiet”

[tamsoj]

Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love.

C.G. Jung, from The Red Book, Liber Primus, “Instruction”

[tamsoj]

I have not disappeared. The boulevard is full of my steps. The sky is full of my thinking. [...]

Major Jackson, from Roll Deep, “On Disappearing”

[tamsoj]

Dwelling upon the self too much produces a terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels around him.

Carlos Castaneda, from “The Teachings of Don Juan”, in The Wheel of Time: The Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts about Life, Death and the Universe

[tamsoj]

I suppose I must allow these thoughts to come. What good would it do to push them away—they will come again—better to swallow this stale drink than keep it in the mouth.

C.G. Jung, from The Red Book, Liber Secundus, “The Castle in the Forest”