My heart is a card catalogue; I am a fervent archiver.
"As the pattern gets more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough." - Linklater, Waking Life
"But maybe the last part of the symphony was the part she loved best -- glad and like the greatest people in the world running and springing up in a hard, free way. Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen to it." - Carson McCullers, from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
"Every art contributes to the greatest art of all: the art of living." - Bertolt Brecht
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart. And in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." - Aeschylus via Robert F. Kennedy
"The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is." - anonymous, recalled by Howard Zinn in his book, A People's History of the United States
"The way doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Way is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand." - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Poetry, music and art have something in common with the contemplative experience. But contemplation is beyond aesthetic intuition, beyond art, beyond poetry. Indeed, it is beyond philosophy, beyond speculative theology. It resumes, transcends, and fulfills them all, and yet at the same time it seems, in a certain way, to supercede and deny them all. Contemplation is always beyond our own knowledge, beyond our own light, beyond systems, beyond explanations, beyond discourse, beyond dialouge, beyond our own self. To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience, as joy, as being." - from New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
"People talk all day in a practical way, but real language that penetrates and affects people and carries wisdom is something different. That sort of connection is very emperical. It comes from the part of you that just understands immediately. All these types of things are gold, and yet they are dishonored or not paid attention to because that kind of tender communication is so alien in our culture, except in performance. There's a wall up between people all day long, but performance transcends that convention. If pop music were really seen as fine art or if fine art were popular, I don't know what the hell would happen. This wouldn't be the same country, because if the masses began to respect and really open up to fine art, it would bring about a huge shift in consciousness." - Jeff Buckley
"The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. In dwelling, live close to the ground, In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"In the last days, I will pour out my spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams." - from Luke
"But how are you going to die one day, Narcissus, since you have no mother? Without a mother one cannot love. Without a mother one cannot die." - from Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
"I have found myself in many political discussions with people who vote for the Conservative Party even though that group's policies do not serve their needs. I have heard convictions expressed that simply boil down to: 'Well, the Labour or Liberal candidate doesn't sound as if he could govern. The Conservative fellow sounds more impressive.' What is usually swaying judgement is sound and fury, not sense and issues. We all make choices like this based on something that ephemeral. But how many of us are aware of it?" - from The Right To Speak by Patsy Rodenburg
"Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall. He lifts his voice, the earth melts. Be still, and know that I am God" - from King David
"In researching occult conspiracies, one eventually faces a crossroad of mythic proportions (called Chapel Perilous in the trade)... Chapel Perilous, like the mysterious entity called "I," cannot be located in the space-time continuum; it is weightless, odorless, tasteless, and undetectable by ordinary instruments. Indeed, like the Ego, it is even possible to deny that it is there. And yet, even more like the Ego, once you are inside it, there doesn't seem to be any way to ever get out again, until you suddenly discover that it has been brought into existence by thought and does not exist outside thought.  Everything you fear is waiting with slavering jaws in Chapel Perilous, but if you are armed with the wand of intuition, the cup of sympathy, the sword of reason and the pentacle of valor, you will find there (the legends say) the Medicine of Metals, the Elixir of Life, the Philosopher's Stone, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness.
        "That's what the legends always say, and the language of myth is poetically precise. For instance, if you go into that realm without the sword of reason, you will lose your mind, but at the same time, if you take only the sword of reason without the cup of sympathy, you will lose your heart. Even more remarkably, if you approach without the wand of intuition, you can stand at the door for decades never realizing you have arrived. You might think you are just waiting for a bus, or wandering from room to room looking for your cigarettes, watching a TV show, or reading a cryptic and ambiguous book. Chapel Perilous is tricky that way." - Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger I
"Jesus said, 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." - the gnostic gospels/Ibid, Nag Hammadi
"We have all experienced listening to speakers who sound insincere, overbearing, or just unsure of what they are saying. In effect, I think our voice becomes a sort of lie detector that instantly traps a speaker whenever he or she is being unauthentic. What we strive for, therefore, is not a beautiful voice but a voice rid of doubt and insecurity, a voice perfectly in pitch with the honesty of any text or feeling, a voice that in essence is sincere. Sincerity gives any voice compelling beauty." - from The Right To Speak by Patsy Rodenburg
"It was almost noon, and we still had more than a hundred miles to go. They would be tough miles. Very soon, I knew, we would both be completely twisted. But there was no going back, and no time to rest. We would have to ride it out." - from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
"As information - abundant, shareable, instantly accessible - now becomes the world's dominant resource, what does that mean for the prospects of fairness? Surely it means that people who get educated to convert information into knowledge and wisdom, who hone their intuitive powers, who learn how to achieve access to information and (even more important) what to select from the information overload that threatens us all, will likely be better off and more fairly treated than those who don't. But whether this happens depends, in every family, tribe, neighborhood, ethnic group, and political jurisdiction, on whether individuals (and especially children) are encouraged to learn the basics of communication and computation, permitted to think for themselves, and rewarded for brainwork above all." - from Birth of a New World: An Open Moment for International Leadership (1993) by Harlan Cleveland, former assistant secretary of state in the Kennedy administration, and U.S. ambassador to NATO under Lyndon Johnson
"Basically rock and roll was stolen. The idea of a kit of drums and people standing in front of this formation - bass to the left, guitar to the right, and the guy in front singing - was taken from small combo jazz and blues; the instrumentation was, certainly. That has segued into something white people know how to do, which is go to school and attend a lecture. Basically, a rock show is somebody giving a speech to people who are looking for and receiving guidance. Sometimes it transcends that and gets pretty sexy, and once in a while a white person gets loose and actually starts to move with the music." - Iggy Pop
"This is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-- his good, pleasing, and perfect will." - the book of Romans, chapter 12
"We are the Hidden Noise Collective, a collaborative community of individuals seeking creative and feasible alternatives to the predominantly unimaginative and unbalanced lifestyles we perceive growing in our social structure. We are responsible and productive people possessing a deep concern for the atrophy threatening the curious, experimental spirit that carries the human race onto more beautiful and intelligent stages of evolution. Our goal is to provide the public an oppurtunity to experience, firsthand, the benefits of a truly creative lifestyle, and to encourage them to explore the natural wellsprings of creativity within themselves." - the Hidden Noise Collective
"Don't take any guff from these swine." - Hunter Thompson
"Hussel hussel hussel
Grind grind grind
Why has everyone got hussel on their mind?"
- M.I.A.
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