Anaïs Nin
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As pointed out on another blog, I really love the idea of generative identity. In this case - a distinct and compelling shape that can take on many different personalities but remain essentially itself.
In urban areas such as Melbourne or Chicago, if you walk a mile you’ll see many different faces of the same city. So why should city identities be staid and uncompromising?
It’s the Saturday after New Years Day in Chicago, Illinois. The first thing I thought when I stepped outside to go for a walk and grab a cup of coffee: it’s so quiet out.
A conversation about winter almost always settles first on how you feel about the cold and then how you feel about the snow. However, I love winter for two reasons outside of those parameters. The quiet stillness outside gives me creative headspace. A time for my ears, which work 24 hours a day, 365 days out of the year, to relax. Secondly, the smell of crisp, clean air. The smells that float to the nose under winter conditions are absolute and un-compromised. These are experiences you simply can’t have anywhere else.
photo credit: Carey Primeau
George Bernard Shaw
Linji
Something worth repeating should be thought provoking. I cherish this quote because it encourages us to find our own Buddah - the knowledge of self. If we see it outside of us, it is false, and we should eliminate it as a possible sense of identity - even if it is Buddah himself.
“UVA’s kinetic installation with sound by Mira Calix, recently featured in Artichoke’s ‘Lumiere’ in the world heritage site of Durham Cathedral. An array of motor-assisted pendulums weaves through space emitting light and sound. The rhythm of the work evolves through chaos and returns to unison, producing a hypnotic and seductive performance that heightens the viewer’s awareness of the space and their relationship with it. More than 75,000 people visited the festival, over the 4-day period.”
— UVA
Satori is the art of knowing which only comes through experience. The inside feeling of rightness validates the functional mechanics of life. “You alone are the replete knower and the method of your knowing is the self.”
In any fulfilled life there must be time to listen to yourself. As R. Murray Schafer likes to point out: silent and listen are anagrams - you cannot have one without the other.
(photo credit: Irwin Romain Jules Arthur)
Stephen King via 37signals.com
