To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
Nadine Gordimer
When it comes to good wine and personal preferances:
I'm not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails!
(Bertlef, Farewell Waltz)
Milan Kundera
I'd like to meet:
Storytellers. I'm like a child, I always have ears for a good story.
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac
You came to me before the sun, to me the most solitary man.
We have been friends from the beginning: we have grief and terror and world in common; we have even the sun in common.
We do not speak to one another, because we know too much: we are silent together, we smile our knowledge to one another.
Are you not the light of my fire? Do you not have the sister-soul of my insight?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes Awww!
Jack Kerouac
Movies:
Al final del viaje está el horizonte, al final del viaje partiremos de nuevo, al final del viaje comienza un camino, al final del viaje estaremos tú y yo intactos, quedamos los que puedan sonreÃr en medio de la muerte, en plena luz.
Silvio RodrÃguez
Television:
“Once we begin to see travel as an inner journey, it is possible to turn every trip we take into a spiritual practice—a hero’s adventure that enlivens our hearts and enlarges our souls. Travel becomes a spiritual experience for us when we are conscious at every moment that our physical transportation from place to place has a metaphysical counterpart. Understanding that, the road takes us inexorably to an encounter with the ‘stranger’ at the heart of the journey—the transformed self.â€
–Joseph Dispenza, The Way of the Traveler
The mysteriously tucked away treasure of the Arabian Gulf - Oman
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Octavio Paz: "The ideal of a single civilisation for everyone implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life."
Books:
The light that radiates from the great novels, time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
Milan Kundera
Heroes:
"No one lives on top of the mountain. It's fine to go there, occasionally--for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.
Arthur Gordon
all teachers are my heroes. my friends that are educators are my biggest inspiration.
