Thickened Light

"This world we live in is but thickened light." Ralph Waldo Emerson

[annaxmalina]

{2020} 1909 footage from: https://youtu.be/t8wzYnU8WzU & https://youtu.be/r7JC3wMnLMU

[country-girl-73-deactivated2019]

[thickenedlight]

Cat people think dogs are stupid and crass, but they are missing something about the nobility of the canine spirit.

[alcohol-in-wonderland]

[third-nature]

"We are realizing that somehow the notion of an observer outside the system with a god-like objectivity and zero input into the situation -- that was a necessary fiction for the more naive program of [Cartesian] description of nature. But as we move into the more sophisticated description of nature, we have to place the observer in the picture...We should accept that [systems are], in principle, mysterious. And so we are never explaining life, or relationships, or economies, or whatever it is we're looking at; rather we are describing them with evermore prescient accuracy. But we cannot eliminate the unknown."

Terence McKenna

[lovlettres-moved]

[lauramakabresku]

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa of Avila

[quotemadness]

People who like to be in control of things can have a hard time with intimacy. Intimacy is anarchic and mutual and definitionally incompatible with control. You seek to control things because you are afraid.

Jonathan Franzen (via quotemadness)

[austinkleon]

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. The life which society proposes to me to live is so artificial and complex—bolstered up on many weak supports, and sure to topple down at last—that no man surely can ever be inspired to live it, and only “old fogies” ever praise it. At best some think it their duty to live it. I believe in the infinite joy and satisfaction of helping myself and others to the extent of my ability. But what is the use in trying to live simply, raising what you eat, making what you wear, building what you inhabit, burning what you cut or dig, when those to whom you are allied insanely want and will have a thousand other things which neither you nor they can raise and nobody else, perchance, will pay for? The fellow-man to whom you are yoked is a steer that is ever bolting right the other way.

Henry David Thoreau, November 5, 1855 (via austinkleon)

[brrvitunsaatana]

i want everyone to know that i don’t care.

[pyro-baby]

[kvtes]

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

Jim Carrey (via kvtes)

[tvneon]

[thickenedlight]

“Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise-- the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in harmony, united by a single common will and faith, without secrets from one another. Andre Breton, too, dreamed of this paradise when he talked about the glass house in which he longed to live. If totalitarianism did not exploit these archetypes, which are deep inside us all and rooted deep in all religions, it could never attract so many people, especially during the early phases of its existence. Once the dream of paradise starts to turn into reality, however, here and there people begin to crop up who stand in its way. and so the rulers of paradise must build a little gulag on the side of Eden. In the course of time this gulag grows ever bigger and more perfect, while the adjoining paradise gets even smaller and poorer.” ― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

[thickenedlight]

I want butterscotch to come back as a trendy flavor.

[billellsworth-deactivated201812]

All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

Carlos Castaneda (via billellsworth)

[psychedelicpreacher]

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[thickenedlight]

"Why do we get angry about what we believe? Because we do not really believe it. Or else what we pretend to be defending as the 'truth' is really our own self-esteem. A man of sincerity is less interested in defending the truth than in stating it clearly, for he thinks that if the truth be clearly seen it can very well take care of itself." —THOMAS MERTON, "NO MAN IS AN ISLAND"