Posts tagged identity

Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led. ~ Louis Kahan [Image: Andreas Feininger] (Special thanks, yama-bato, for the inspiration today)
Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

~ Louis Kahan

[Image: Andreas Feininger]

(Special thanks, yama-bato, for the inspiration today)

yama-bato

you hear silence speak

It is very hard to live with silence.  The real silence is death and this is terrible.  To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert.  You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to lose it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous.  You make yourself void.  You become silence.  You become more silent than the silence around you.  And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.

~ Edmond Jabès

dreaminginthedeepsouth

May we all grow in grace and peace,and not neglect the silence that is printedin the centre of our being.It will not fail us. ~ Thomas Merton [Image: Léonard Misonne Les chênes (1912)] (via crashinglybeautiful)
May we all grow in grace and peace,
and not neglect the silence that is printed
in the centre of our being.
It will not fail us.

~ Thomas Merton

[Image: Léonard Misonne Les chênes (1912)]

(via crashinglybeautiful)

themetropolitanline

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ~ Anaïs Nin [Image: waterscapes]
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

~ Anaïs Nin

[Image: waterscapes]

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The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
~ John Cage

happinessateverysize

The search for an ideal mate is in reality a quest for alienated facets of the self.  We shape an image of our unrealized self and then project it onto another person.

The search for an ideal mate is in reality a quest for alienated facets of the self.  We shape an image of our unrealized self and then project it onto another person.

mosedown

Being complete is happy being zero. ~ü A circle — known as “enso” in Japanese — universally implies completeness, all. A zen circle can also imply zero, sunyata, absolute, true reality, enlightenment, no beginning/no end in all phenomena, no symbol, the spread of Dharma as a turning wheel, harmony, and womb.

Being complete is happy being zero.

~ü

A circle — known as “enso” in Japanese — universally implies completeness, all. A zen circle can also imply zero, sunyata, absolute, true reality, enlightenment, no beginning/no end in all phenomena, no symbol, the spread of Dharma as a turning wheel, harmony, and womb.

gooddog61

The body contains the life story just as much as the brain.
Edna O’Brien

ratak-monodosico

Once one is caught up into the material world, not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. By this I mean the thing that lies behind all great careers, from Shakespeare’s to Abraham Lincoln’s, and as far back as there are books to read—the sense that life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, and that the redeeming things are not “happiness and pleasure” but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. Having learned this in theory from the lives and conclusions of great men, you can get a hell of a lot more enjoyment out of whatever bright things come your way. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a letter to his daughter Scottie at college

Once one is caught up into the material world, not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

By this I mean the thing that lies behind all great careers, from Shakespeare’s to Abraham Lincoln’s, and as far back as there are books to read—the sense that life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, and that the redeeming things are not “happiness and pleasure” but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. Having learned this in theory from the lives and conclusions of great men, you can get a hell of a lot more enjoyment out of whatever bright things come your way.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a letter to his daughter Scottie at college

sometimesagreatnotion

Human A fictional race of Argonimorphic apes, presented in books, movies, tales and in the real life. Humans are warm-blooded, soft-skinned, flat-faced, ugly mammals, who tent to make things that are beautiful, ugly. The apes are rather unintelligent (the average intelligence quotient is 100), their main obsessions are domination, copulation (population over 6.600.000.000 and is still growing) and social integration (the more friends they have - the better it is). They are treacherous, best not to trust them. The aggression level is so high that they can’t get on without killing each other, every excuse is good to start a military conflict, or at least humiliate the opposing side and show one’s domination over the other side.  ~ Urban Dictionary [Image: Apocalyptic Landscape Ludwig Meidner]

Human

A fictional race of Argonimorphic apes, presented in books, movies, tales and in the real life. Humans are warm-blooded, soft-skinned, flat-faced, ugly mammals, who tent to make things that are beautiful, ugly. The apes are rather unintelligent (the average intelligence quotient is 100), their main obsessions are domination, copulation (population over 6.600.000.000 and is still growing) and social integration (the more friends they have - the better it is). They are treacherous, best not to trust them. The aggression level is so high that they can’t get on without killing each other, every excuse is good to start a military conflict, or at least humiliate the opposing side and show one’s domination over the other side. 

~ Urban Dictionary

[Image: Apocalyptic Landscape Ludwig Meidner]

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