January 2010
46 posts
neverneverland:
We talk of love as being either carnal or spiritual and have set a battle going between the sacred and the profane. We have divided what love is from what love should be, so we never know what love is. Love, surely, is a total feeling that is not sentimental and in which there is no sense of separation. It is complete purity of feeling without the separative, fragmenting quality...
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via justbesplendid) (via coccaonthinks) (via booklover)
“So here’s what you do: never stop thinking. Never stop asking questions. Never,...”
– Open Letter to Design Students Everywhere | Design Observer (via bmdesign) (via wearethedigitalkids) (via sarahejennings)
"It took us so long to realize that a purpose of...
simplicityandi:
scout:
jesuisperdu, hammerito, danionaday & emilydonne:
- Kurt Vonnegut
lapetitebaobab:
invisiblestories:
Ryuichi...
One Being Inside All
englishannah:
Lovers, it is time for the taste of fire.
Let sadness and your fears of death sit in the corner and sulk.
The sky itself reels with love. There is one being inside all of us, one peace.
Poet, let every word tremble its wind bell. Saddle the horse with great anticipation.
Flute notes are calling us into friendship. Begin again. Play the melody all the way through this time.
Sun...
“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One...”
– John Steinbeck (via delgrosso)
oneradhuman:
“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and your pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the...
for Mr. Pallett and any other interested parties.
parachuteshark:
ataxiwardance:
from Christian Schubart’s Ideen zu einer Aesthetik der Tonkunst (1806)
C Major Completely Pure. Its character is: innocence, simplicity, naïveté, children’s talk. C Minor Declaration of love and at the same time the lament of unhappy love. All languishing, longing, sighing of the love-sick soul lies in this key. Db Major A leering key, degenerating into grief...
What Is the Most Complex Language in the World? →
velveteenrabbit:
paulsingh:
From the article:
Most fascinating is a feature that would make any journalist tremble. Tuyuca requires verb-endings on statements to show how the speaker knows something. Diga ape-wi means that “the boy played soccer (I know because I saw him)”, while diga ape-hiyi means “the boy played soccer (I assume)”. English can provide such information, but for Tuyuca that...
“The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who...”
– William Lyon Phelps (via bitchville) (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover)
