May 2011
“In the state of passion without a cause there is intensity free of all...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Book of Life (via adsertoris)
“Negative experiences can lead to joy and understanding. Life is untidy. When we...”
– Derrick Jensen (A Language Older Than Words)
“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how...”
– Herman Hesse
“The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes...”
– Aldous Huxley (via loveyourchaos, nathanielstuart)
“An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A...”
– George Orwell (via azspot)
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via whiporwill)
The case of the missing 8.4 Libyan earthquake →
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
– Isaac Asimov (via bouncingbabyuniverse)
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“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth,...”
– Aleister Crowley (via stillmindstillcosmos)
“I feel this society has somewhere lost its sense of what art is, art is...”
– Kurt Cobain (via slychedelic)
anthrojoyce asked: What is your opinion on Genetically Modified Foods?
I use to be one of those "Organic Only" people, but after reading Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress by Michael Specter a few months ago, my views on it have begun to change. In the chapter about GM Food, he mentions that organic food isn't healthier than GM's...
As a...
I use to be one of those "Organic Only" people, but after reading Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress by Michael Specter a few months ago, my views on it have begun to change. In the chapter about GM Food, he mentions that organic food isn't healthier than GM's...
As a...
“Take someone who doesn’t keep score,
who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid...”
– Rumi (via elige)
Niels Bohr: Rationalism is not enough / An insight...
deadman325:
“The idea of a personal God is foreign to me…but we ought to remember that religion uses language in quite a different way from science…[it] is more closely related to the language of poetry. True we are inclined to think that science deals with information about objective facts, and poetry with subjective feelings. Hence we conclude that if religion does indeed deal with...
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The Legacy of Bin Laden by Immortal Technique →
“When the announcement came late last night that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by the United States, many took to Twitter, the streets, and the airwaves to offer snap judgments, brief thoughts, and celebration. Immortal Technique, instead, took a different route. The always critically thinking, socially conscious rhymer decided to reflect. He reflected on the news and what it meant for...
“If a man is endowed with an ethical sense and is convinced of the sanctity of...”
– Carl Jung, Depth Psychology and a New Ethic
“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
– Noam Chomsky
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Believe nothing
Explore everything
“What people said was very simple: in the 1930s we had mass unemployment, but we...”
– Tony Benn, Former member of English Parliament
“Humans have traveled across deserts, voyaged across vast seas, even set foot on...”
– (via lostmylover)
Believing all conspiracy theories is as ignorant as rejecting all of them. —Vigilant Citizen
People are usually allergic to the word ‘research’, and their medication is called ‘mainstream media’.
“It is our “job” to continue imagining higher, and even higher,...”
– Neale Donald Walsch
“Heaven is here — you just have to know how to live it. And hell too is here, and...”
– Osho (via universoul)
“Our only security is our ability to change.”
– John C. Lilly
“The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.”
– Robert A. Monroe
There’s an ex in sex, an over in lover, a king in fucking, a crew in screw, a nation in extermination, an end in friend, an us in trust.
Just goes to show that you can play associative games with language but you cannot find the ultimate truth in there.
The mind is flexible.
And by the way, there is an ass in associative and a mate in ultimate…
“To follow the path of wisdom has never been more urgent or more difficult. Our...”
– Sogyal Rinpoche
“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his...”
– Leonardo da Vinci
slychedelic:
Science has shown that our hearts create electrical fields that are 60-100x stronger than the fields of our brain, and magnetic fields that are 5000x stronger from the heart than from the brain. Listen to your hearts, people.
“The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand...”
– Adam Elenbass (via benevolecents)
One Less Bad Guy in the World →
ellobofilipino:
iwriteasiwrite:
For all its military might, the United States can learn a lot from us here in the Philippines. We’ve killed many terrorists of many different sorts in these islands: international terrorists, community terrorists, so-called terrorists. Yet there was never a feeling of closure when a terrorist passes on, for terror – and the ideology that perpetuates terror –...
“As every parent knows, the toddler is no longer a passive (bio-survival) infant...”
– Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger
“The conscious and intelligent maniplulation of organized habits and opinions of...”
– Edward Bernays