hidden power, non-display, nature, love, music
“Be slow to agree or disagree.â€
-The Thomasine Illuminists
"Tao that is displayed is not Tao"
-Chang Tzu
"The fact of a person being a gentleman is as much an ineluctable factor as any possible spiritual experience; in fact, it is possible, even probable, that a man may be misled by the enthusiasm of an illumination, and if he should find apparant conflict between his spiritual duty and his duty to honour, it is almost sure evidence that a trap is being laid for him and he should unhesitatingly stick to the course which ordinary decency indicates"
-Aleister Crowley
"It's easy to be tempted away from your path under the illusion that you are finding it. But as [Austin Osman] Spare said, 'it was the straying that found the path direct'."
-Joel Biroco
"Few are those who see with their own eyes,
and feel with their own hearts."
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods".
-Albert Einstein
"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is steadily subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected. It is, moreover, liable to burst forth in a moment of unawareness."
-Carl Jung
and on a related note...
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable, and therefore, not popular.
-Carl Jung
"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
"I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword"
-Jesus Christ
"The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say.
He simply gives himself in service, and never worries."
-Lao Tzu
"Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live
in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft."
-Baz Luhrmann
" To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. "
-George Orwell
“If you’re studying geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all… but philosophy, you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.†- Steve Martin
"Blessed is the day when your world shatters for you can see your future beckoning from behind the ruins." - Ingrid Coffin
gregorian chant, miranda sex garden, nin, pink floyd, tangerine dream, ensemble organum, blackouts, legendary pink dots, om, nadja, bohren und der club of gore, boards of canada, EARTH, in gowan ring, the owl service, freezepop, the clientele, stars of the lid, daft punk, beach house, chameleons, tori amos, sisters of mercy, portishead, radiohead, kraftwerk, secret chiefs III, mazzy star, the teardrop explodes, birthday party/nick cave, cindytalk, comus, a certain ratio, white noise, severed heads, the glove, new order/joy division, echo and the bunnymen, the cure, david bowie, coil, fad gadget, 16 horsepower, woven hand, espers, dead can dance/lisa gerrard, bauhaus, ministry, swans, adult, abba, philip glass, air, amon duul II, morphine, the church, brian jonestwon massacre, boredoms, cocteau twins, oingo boingo, the ghastly ones, medicine, the magnetic fields, lustmord, low, nurse with wound, slowdive, they might be giants, brian eno, death in june, ween, smashing pumpkins, the stooges, the banshees, sunn 0))), skywave, love and rockets, tones on tail, the velvet underground, the doors, six organs of admittance, current 93, this mortal coil, talking heads, tool, mr. bungle, danny elfman, aphex twin, violent femmes, motown, classical, soundtrack...
All alone, or in twos
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall
Some hand in hand
Some gathering together in bands
The bleeding hearts and the artists
Make their stand
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall
after all it's not easy
banging your heart against some mad buggers
Wall
-R. Waters
joseph campbell, lewis carroll, chogyam trungpa, carl jung, tolkien, the secret teachings of jesus, the gnostic gospels, the mystical qabalah, the golden bough, fairy tales, mythology, J.M. Barrie, white noise, arkham asylum, the sword and the serpent, black elk speaks