A Portrait of Eli

[philosophybits]

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: ‘I, the state, am the people’.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via philosophybits)

[fy-perspectives]

[philosophybits]

“Most men would feel insulted, if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.”

— Henry David Thoreau, “Life Without Principle”

[thealchemicalpoet]

“Poets, it’s said, are shamans of words. True shamans are poets of consciousness. Journeying into a deeper reality with the aid of sung and spoken poetry, they bring back energy and healing through poetic acts, shapeshifting physical systems. When we dream, we tap directly into the same creative source from which poets and shamans derive their gifts. When we create from our dreams, and enter dreamlike flow, we become poets and artists. When we act to bring the energy and imagery of dreams into physical reality, we become poets of consciousness and infuse our world with magic.”

— Robert Moss

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

“So many men are deprived of grace. How can one live without grace? One has to try it and do what Christianity never did: be concerned with the damned.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks (via philosophybits)

[philosophyquotes]

“A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.”

— Noam Chomsky

[spacevorobey]

[wnq-words]

WORD OF THE DAY:

perspicacious

(pərspəˈkāSHəs), adjective |

Perspicacious is defined as possessing a mental perception, generally, higher than others; meaning your empathy is composed in an intellectual level as opposed to using your full emotional capacity. Deeply insightful and intelligent, 

a perspicacious person has an understanding of things’ and people’s mechanisms, which are not immediately obvious. In other words, they have good judgement, which propels others to view them as wise individuals. 

[nevver]

Toothpaste for dinner

[wnq-books]

Walden By Henry David Thoreau  |  @wnq-books

[wordsnquotes]

“The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.”

— Alice Hoffman (via wordsnquotes)

[the-name-arise]

[mayaalchemy-deactivated20220816]

Hieros Gamos, the sacred marriage of Gods. the union of mother and father creator, of Jesus and Sophia Christ. the original blueprint for Humanity. The balance of Divine Masculine and Feminine, first within Self. the return to wholeness, to oneness. to bliss and love and joy.

[the-name-arise]

[philosophybits]

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House (via quotespile)

[dailypsychologyfacts]

14 Psychological Tricks To Get the Partner You Want | Psych2Go by Maxime G. 

[angel-with-a-shotgun17]

Wow. This is amazing.

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