Quotes of the day from previous years:
| Everything is literally entangled, it can all be communicated with and affected "at adistance" because there isno distance, only a simulation ofapparentseparation which our limitedconsciousness feeds us second by second at 11 bits. The "telepathy" which brings people together is no more or less supernatural or unlikely than the "telepathy" which brings two of your fingers together when youthink about it.Patience, participation and constant closeobservation of what's going on, on the inside and on the outside will soon make you a finesorcerer, if that's what you want to be. |
| ~Grant Morrison ~ |
| Will is tograce as thehorse is to the rider. |
| ~Augustine of Hippo ~ |
| To bear up underloss — tofight the bitterness ofdefeat and theweakness ofgrief — to bevictor overanger — tosmile whentears are close — to resistevil men and baseinstincts — tohate hate and tolove love — to go on when it would seemgood todie — to seek ever after theglory and thedream — to look up with unquenchablefaith in something evermore about to be — that is what any man can do, and so be great. |
| ~Zane Grey ~ |
| Thecynic says "blessed is he whoexpectethnothing, for he shall not bedisappointed." I say "blessed is he who expectetheverything, for he can'talways be disappointed. |
| ~Tallulah Bankhead ~ |
| We move from part towhole and back again, and in thatdance ofcomprehension, in that amazingcircle ofunderstanding, we comealive tomeaning, tovalue, and tovision: the very circle of understanding guides our way, weaving together the pieces,healing the fractures, mending the torn andtortured fragments,lighting the way ahead — this extraordinarymovement from part to whole and back again, with healing the hallmark of each and every step, andgrace the tenderreward. |
| ~Ken Wilber ~ |
| Welive in atime which hascreated theart of theabsurd. It is our art. It contains happenings,Pop art, camp, atheater of the absurd ... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina ofwaste...? Or are we face to face with adesperate or mostrationaleffort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all torescuecivilization from the pit andplague of its bedding? |
| ~Norman Mailer ~ |
| I don't thinklife isabsurd. I think we areall here for a hugepurpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. |
| ~Norman Mailer ~ |
| Everymoment of one'sexistence one isgrowing into more or retreating into less. One is alwaysliving a little more ordying a little bit. |
| ~Norman Mailer ~ |
| The finalpurpose ofart is to intensify, even, ifnecessary, to exacerbate, themoralconsciousness ofpeople. |
| ~Norman Mailer ~ |
| What's myphilosophy? In aword, integral. And what onearth — or inheaven — do I mean by "integral"? The dictionarymeaning is fairly simple: "comprehensive, balanced, inclusive,essential forcompleteness." Shortdefinition, tall order. |
| ~Ken Wilber ~ |
| Icertainly do have thisfeeling ofaffection for the absolute sense ofintellectualfreedom thatexists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center ofAmericanlife. … Every time I get totallydiscouraged with this country, I remind myself, "No, thefact is that finally we can really say what we think, and some extraordinary things have come out of that." |
| ~Norman Mailer ~ |
| It's a misperception of me that I am a wild man — I wish I still were. I'm 68 years old. Therage now is, oh, so deep it's almostcomfortable. It has even approached the point where I can live with itphilosophically. The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design theworld. |
| ~Norman Mailer ~ |
| Revolutions are the periods ofhistory whenindividuals count most. |
| ~Norman Mailer ~ |
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"Reallife?" What's that? ~Grant Morrison (date of birth)
There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels. ~Ken Wilber
The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the degenerate — each and all are radically perfect manifestations of Spirit precisely as they are. There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.~Ken Wilber
| Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. |
| ~Tallulah Bankhead ~ |
| The only thing I regret about mypast is the length of it. If I had to live mylife again, I'd make the samemistakes, only sooner. |
| ~Tallulah Bankhead ~ |
| It is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life. |
| ~Ken Wilber ~ |
| An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which approaches, methodologies, epistemologies, or ways or knowing are "correct," the answer can only be, "All of them." That is, all of the numerous practices or paradigms of human inquiry — including physics, chemistry, hermeneutics, collaborative inquiry, meditation, neuroscience, vision quest, phenomenology, structuralism, subtle energy research, systems theory, shamanic voyaging, chaos theory, developmental psychology — all of those modes of inquiry have an important piece of the overall puzzle of a total existence that includes, among other many things, health and illness, doctors and patients, sickness and healing. |
| ~Ken Wilber ~ |
| With the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance. |
| ~Norman Mailer ~ |
| Culture is worth a little risk. |
| ~Norman Mailer ~ |
| Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind. |
| ~Norman Mailer ~ |
| History proves abundantly thatpurescience, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit tomankind. |
| ~Irving Langmuir ~ |