February 2012
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Another huge positive emerging from the research on the brain and on attachment is that the brain keeps growing throughout the lifecycle. Dan Siegel speaks of a 92 year-old client whose whole world opened up when he was able to change his thinking, connecting and thus his very brain. So we need not give up, despair or think we’re set in our stuckness and pain; we do, however we can find it,...
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Let us recall once again the difference between the “man of faith” and the “man of gnosis”: it is the difference between the believer, who in all things has in view moral and mystical efficacy to the point of sometimes needlessly violating the laws of thought, and the gnostic who is so made that these certitudes determine his behavior and contribute powerfully to his...
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blazeberg:
“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…”
— C.S. Lewis
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“Blade Runner has been called “the official nightmare of Los Angeles”, yet this...”
– Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
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“One may perhaps usefully consider here the image of a radio receiver. When the...”
– David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order (via manahorse, dialoghost). (via staticeverywhere)
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“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
– Rumi (via glamourofthedamned). (via staticeverywhere)
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therearepeoplewho:
WE’RE ALRIGHT.
WE’RE ALRIGHT.
WE’RE ALRIGHT.
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“Es ist alles lächerlich, wenn man an den Tod denkt.”
– (“Everything is ridiculous when one thinks of death.”)
Thomas Bernhard
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“Tragedy makes you grow up.”
– Jane Campion
(NZ, not Australian, film director. The only woman to have won the Palme D’Or at Cannes)
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The feelings felt, experienced, excoriated, carried as memory, burned into neuronal retinas, “history”, are so heavy and toxic that if I brought them forth and held them out to you in the palm of my hand, it would be as offering you a radioactive isotope.
In a matter of months, or years, by mere dint of proximity and exposure, you would in all likelihood develop a cancer and die.
Is...
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heksenhaus:
badluckcrow replied to your quote: fuck you, i’m a ghost!
Badluckcrow!
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“Is life always this hard, or is it just when you’re a kid?”
“Always like this.”
Leon (‘The Professional’)
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“collusionism”
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“collisionism”
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9-eyes of Google street view project →
Jon Rafman
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“My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we...”
– Howard Zinn, Preface from The Twentieth Century (via whiskeyleaks)
This is very difficult, methinks. Complicity is virtually inescapable, particularly where family is concerned it seems. Is deconstruction necessarily destruction, or conversely, destruction a form of deconstruction? (replaced with...