It's Been a Long Strange Trip: June 2011

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Love Untold

I will then trust the love untold
Which not my worth nor want has bought
Which wooed me young and woos me old,
And to this evening hath me brought
--- Henry David Thoreau "Inspiration" ---

Thursday, June 9, 2011

the mysterious

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. --- Albert Einstein ---

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Labels

“For modern man absolutely everything that exists is put into definite categories. We are labeling machines. We classify the world, and the world classifies us. We have become perceptual jailers of each other. The chain of human thought is powerful. Even our deepest feelings are classified and ordered so that nothing can escape. One example is the way we alienate ourselves from the actual time we are living in, in order to mindlessly go around repeating stereotypes. We have a collection of preset days: Mother’s Day, All Saints’ Day, Valentine Day, birthday anniversaries and weddings…They are like stakes we tie our life to so we won’t get lost, and thus we walk the Earth, revolving around our descriptions like beasts tied by the neck.” --- Carlos Castaneda ---

Friday, June 3, 2011

Be

"Be" he would say, his face breaking into a toothless grin. "Always be. Never try to become. You can be anything you want, just don't work at becoming. Remember to be it."

--- a Javanese shapeshifter named Toyup, from ShapeShifting by John Perkins ---

It's Been a Long Strange Trip