September 2011
3 posts
“The capacity to stand in relationship to that which is larger than our ego is to...”
– James Hollis, “The Middle Path”
August 2011
6 posts
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“What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in...”
– M. C. Escher (via metaconscious)
“All living beings are in the open: they manifest themselves and shine in their...”
– Giorgio Agamben
July 2011
5 posts
“A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.”
– George Wald
“I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark....”
– Aldous Huxley
June 2011
4 posts
Ahmad Jamal →
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
3 posts
March 2011
4 posts
The Dream of the Ants
Excerpt from Contact by Carl Sagan: “Do Buddhists believe in God, or not?” Ellie asked on their way to have dinner with the Abbot. “Their position seems to be,” Vaygay replied dryly, “that their God is so great he doesn’t even have to exist.” As they sped through the countryside, they talked about Utsumi, the Abbot of the most famous Zen Buddhist monastery in Japan. A few years before, at...
“Do Buddhists believe in God, or not?” Ellie asked on their way to have...”
– from Contact, by Carl Sagan
February 2011
14 posts
Extremely Badass Solar Flair Video →
Holy shit this is awesome.
I’m just going to go out on a limb here and say that this badass explosion is probably literally the size of several planets. And, knowing at least a tiny little bit about space, that’s probably an embarrassingly enormous understatement.
“Oh heart, if one should say to you
that the soul perishes like the body,...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via oceanofmind)
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant....”
– Albert Einstein
“Mind believes, judges, doubts and fears. Our self does not exist. It is just a...”
– Gilles Chamboraire (via oceanofmind)
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Carl Sagan
“I wondered why moralists call this world a dreary wilderness: for me it...”
– Charlotte Brontë (via gnargoyle)
“La Chose, c’est moi. L’existence, libérée, dégagée, reflue sur moi. J’existe.”
– Jean-Paul Sarte, La Nausée
This Is Incredible →
January 2011
6 posts
Why Are Students Reporting Record Levels of... →
“If all the students around you are desperately trying to put on a happy face — and you perceive that face as a true reflection of their inner selves, even as you work to hide your own sadness — well, it’s not surprising that so many students might be getting a bit stressed out.”
Read more:...
China Moon Landing by 2017? →
WikiLeaks Set to Expose Swiss Banking Secrets →
Crazy/awesome 420MP zoomable image of the Carina... →
December 2010
16 posts
The Connoisseur →
Man knows no peace because he does not know...
He only sees his reflection.
