Saturday, September 30, 2017
Friday, September 29, 2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Deeply moved (Flanagan)
They recited to each other more of their favourite haiku, and they were deeply moved not so much by the poetry as by their sensitivity to poetry; not so much by the genius of the poem as by their wisdom in understanding the poem; not in knowing the poem but in knowing the poem demonstrated the higher side of themselves...
Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Monday, September 25, 2017
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Saturday, September 23, 2017
The self
The self is an experiment, a magic trick, a scam, a work of art, an accident, a reaction to and against, an homage, a provisional model, a spontaneous sequence prompted by desire and fear.
Labels: thought
Friday, September 22, 2017
Thursday, September 21, 2017
More on truth
If everything occurs in infinite iterations, does that render the concept of truth meaningless (or so trivial as to be insignificant)?
Labels: thought
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Monday, September 18, 2017
No past (Flanagan)
A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.
Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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Saturday, September 16, 2017
On seeing
Criticism blinds; praise blinds; expectation blinds; desire blinds.
Perhaps seeing isn't the objective?
Labels: thought
Friday, September 15, 2017
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Abstraction
People fear abstraction because they are afraid of being forced to acknowledge that they are abstraction.
Labels: thought
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Monday, September 11, 2017
General approach (Boo)
His general approach toward his neighbors was this: "The better I know you, the more I will dislike you, and the more you will dislike me. So let us keep to ourselves."
Katherine Boo, Behind The Beautiful Forevers
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On freedom
Freedom is always relative, subject to applicable constraints. The notion of absolute freedom is inherently nonsensical.
Labels: thought
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Upon discovering the nature
The best are the most shocked upon discovering the nature of the average.
Labels: thought
Saturday, September 09, 2017
Friday, September 08, 2017
Nothing else (Krishnamurti)
So you see that you cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority. There is only you—your relationship with others and with the world—there is nothing else. When you realise this, it either brings great despair, from which comes cynicism and bitterness, or, in facing the fact that you and nobody else are responsible for the world and for yourself, for what you think, what you feel, how you act, all self-pity goes.
J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
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Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Isolate, Diversions, Necronyms, Good Enough
The Hamilton Stone Review has accepted four of my poems—"Isolate," "Diversions," "Necronyms," and "Good Enough"—for publication in their next issue!
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Monday, September 04, 2017
The Legendary
The Legendary has published four of my poems—"Frictionless," "Lingering," "Advantage," and "Modus Operandi"—in Issue 69 on their site.
Labels: publication notice
Sunday, September 03, 2017
Friday, September 01, 2017
Freedom | Trust
What others impose upon you indicates a lack of trust—neither freedom nor trust make sense without the other.
Labels: thought