The truth looms large in the shadows.

~ü

[Image: Gastone Lombardi La Cathédrale (1950)]

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Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

~ Seneca (via journalofanobody)

[Image: Alfred Kubin The Fear (Angst) ~1903]

The disparate elements of a clear narrative.  i.e. Mystery.

~ü

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The summer solstice.  The cycles of the seasons remind us of the certainty of life.  That life is meant to be guided and not steered because it will happen regardless of what we do.  Attempting to control it will only deny us from knowing who we really are.  

~ü

[Image: Cy Twombly Summer Madness  (1990)]

Photo of Gary Snyder by Allen Ginsberg

Click through to read: Just One Breath

Excerpt:

“In This World of onrushing events, the act of meditation—even just a “one-breath” meditation—straightening the back, clearing the mind for a moment—is a refreshing island in the stream. Although the term meditation has mystical and religious connotations for many people, it is a simple and plain activity.”

Thank you for the gentle reminder:  onmyowntwohands & constantflux.

~ crashinglybeautiful

Then suddenly Ann would snap alert and feel intensely alive, or rather that everything was alive and that she was part of it.  The rocks, the rowboat on the shore, the water itself - everything seemed pulsating with a kind of energy.  She found she could put questions to the experience.  “What is my role in all this?” she asked.  “I want to know,” she whispered.  “Show me.”  The rocks, the trees, the water - all in silent chorus “answered” - not in words, of course - that her wanting to know, just that, was her part of the pulsating landscape.  “Creation delights in the recognition of itself” is how she would later put it.

- Huston Smith “Tales of Wonder” 
   [Photo: Rick Geerling]

The patron saint of music and the blind depicted as if she is finally shrouded and bound on her death bead.  Which is untrue - because saints cannot die. 

Death of Saint Cecilia

Stephano Maderno, 1600

Recursive Arches in Architecture

Recursion is an elegant way that AI researchers use simple decisions to model large-scale behaviors.  To think of humans, and the complex decisions we make, broken down to the cellular level.  A chain of causality that creates what we consider consciousness.

(set x’(1 1 1 1 -1))

(defun recursiveArc (x)

  (cond ((< x 0)(recursiveArc( cdr’(x) ) )))

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