Instantiation
Sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being, to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung
03-SEP
Leave a reply
Category Archives: Urban
01-SEP
Underground
Work is the way you occupy your mind & hand & eye and whole body, when they’re informed by your imagination & wit, by your keenest perceptions, by your most profound reflections on everything you’ve read & seen & heard and been a part of.
Work Is When You Put Off Playtime
31-AUG
Community
Liberal & conservative are terms used – not to think – but to avoid thinking. You can classify anything as liberal or conservative, then simply declare yourself as being one or the other. All your thoughts for the rest of your life can be a knee jerk.
20-AUG
Perpendicular
When confronting an obstacle, there’s no reason to run. Start with a better world at the center, overcome the inevitable barriers, then expand to encompass more territory.
Impediments need not hinder growth.
19-AUG
Overpass
He accepted another pint and took a pull at it. “Of course, I had my own personal alchemist too.”
“You what?”
He was getting silly and he knew it. Exuberance and Hall and Woodhouse best bitter was a mixture to be wary of, but one of the first effects it had is to stop you being wary of things, and the point at which Arthur should have stopped and explained no more was the point at which he started instead to get inventive.
“Oh yes,” he insisted with a happy glazed smile. “It’s why I’ve lost so much weight.”
“What?” said his audience.
“Oh yes,” he said again. “The Californians have rediscovered alchemy. Oh yes.”
He smiled again.
SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH (1999) by Douglas Adams
How do people suppress things? Generally, alcohol suppresses fear, nicotine suppresses anger and frustration, marijuana suppresses sadness, and caffeine suppresses the long-lasting, energy-sapping results of other forms of suppression.
Rebirthing by Leonard & Laut (1983)
17-AUG
Opening
“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.”
Chapter 14: Oxen of Sun – Ulysses by James Joyce
09-AUG
Solitude
When you’re in a place of natural silence, you’re not alone, and you can feel it. Whether it’s birdcalls from miles away or the proximity of a giant tree whose warm tones you can feel, there’s a presence. It’s a quieting experience.
–Gordon Hempton, in August 2023 Sun Magazine
30-JUL
Reflection
If the space terms predominate in the expression for the interval between event-points, the interval is said to be space-like, since it is then possible to select a co-ordinate system–belonging to an observer with an admissible velocity, in which the events appear simultaneous, and therefore separated only spatially.
If, however, the interval is time-like, the events cannot be simultaneous in any co-ordinate system, but there exists a co-ordinate system in which the space terms will vanish entirely, so that the separation between events will be purely temporal, id est, occurring at the same place, but at different times.
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)