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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Proverb: Chinese Proverb
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In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything but words and notions. There is always money for, there are always doctorates in, the learned foolery of research into what, for scholars, is the all-important problem: Who influenced whom to say what when? Even in this age of technology the verbal humanities are honored. The non-verbal humanities, the arts of being directly aware o the given facts of our existence, are almost completely ignored. A catalogue, a bibliography, a definitive edition of a third-rate versifier’s ipsissima verba, a stupendous index to end all indexes-any genuinely Alexandrian project is sure of approval and financial support. But when it comes to finding out how you and I, our children and grandchildren, may become more perceptive, more intensely aware of inward and outward reality, more open to the Spirit, less apt, by psychological malpractices, to make ourselves physically ill, and more capable of controlling our out autonomic nervous system–when it comes to any form of non-verbal education more fundamental (and more likely to be of some practical use) than Swedish drill, no really respectable person in any really respectable university or church will do anything about it. Verbalists are suspicious of the non-verbal; rationalists fear the given, non-rational fact; intellectuals feel that “what we perceive by the eye (or in any other way) is foreign to us as such and need not impress us deeply.” Besides, this matter of education in the non-verbal humanities will not fit into any of the established pigeonholes. It is not religion, not neurology, not gymnastics, not morality or civics, not even experimental psychology. This being so the subject is, for academic and ecclesiastical purposes, non-existent and may safely be ignored altogether or left, with a patronizing smile, to those whom the Pharisees of verbal orthodoxy call cranks, quacks, charlatans and unqualified amateurs.
Book: Doors of Perception, 76-77, Paperback edition (1990) published by Perennial
Today’s child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and schedules.
Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves.
Book: Convergence Culture
If you love someone tell them. Most importantly, stay close to your friends. Let it make a difference in your day and theirs.
The object of a liberal training is not learning, but discipline and the enlightenment of the mind. The educated man is to be discovered by his point of view, by the temper of his mind, by hit attitude towards life and his fair way of thinking. He can see, he can discriminate, he can combine ideas and perceieve whither they lead; he has insight and comprehension. His mind is a pracised instrument of appreciation. He is more apt to contribute light than heat to a discussion, and will oftener than another show the power of uniting the elements of a difficult subject in a whole view; he has the knowledge of the world which no one can have who knows only his own generation or only his own task.
What we should seek to impart in our colleges, therefore, is not so much learning itself as the spirit of learning. You can impart that to young men; and you can impart it to them in the three or four years at your disposal. It consists in the power to distinguish good reasoning from bad, in the power to digest and interpret evidence, in a habit of catholic observation and a preference for the non-partisan point of view, in an addiction to clear and logical prcesses of thought and yet and instinctive desire to interpret rather than to stick in the letter of the reasoning, in a taste for knowledge and a deep respect for the integrity of the human mind. It is citizenship of the world of knowledge, but not ownership of it.
What we should seek to impart in our colleges, therefore, is not so much learning itself as the spirit of learning. You can impart that to young men; and you can impart it to them in the three or four years at your disposal. It consists in the power to distinguish good reasoning from bad, in the power to digest and interpret evidence, in a habit of catholic observation and a preference for the non-partisan point of view, in an addiction to clear and logical prcesses of thought and yet and instinctive desire to interpret rather than to stick in the letter of the reasoning, in a taste for knowledge and a deep respect for the integrity of the human mind. It is citizenship of the world of knowledge, but not ownership of it.
Raphael, you always bear the world’s problems on your shoulders. It is an admirable quality when you are a protector of others. But you must realize that while at times you might not be my favorite student, it does not mean that you are my least favorite son. You are strong, passionate, and loyal to your fault. These are the merits of a great leader as well, but only when tempered with compassion and humility.
Movie: TMNT
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
If you don’t stick to your values when they’re being tested, they’re not values, they’re hobbies. You know one of the genius moves of the Founders was not writing the Bill of Rights on the back window of a dusty van.
TV: The Daily Show: 22 Jan 2009
I hate you because you crawl within my head as she does, but your presence holds no thoughts, no teachings, you are just… there, unspoken. I hate you because you are beautiful to me. And in that weakness lies death.
Video game: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
The further you run away from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you, and they do.
Movie: Inside Man
Shared happiness is double happiness. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.
An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living and doesn’t teach them how to live.
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the creative bug is just a wee voice telling you, “I’d like my crayons back, please.”
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Of all weapons, Love is the most deadly and devastating and few there be who thrust their fate in its hands.
What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about the things.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
They must find it difficult… Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
We will be at “peace,” as it is called, if we tolerate everyone who disagrees with us, provided he returns the compliment. If there are those unwilling to do so, we think we can “defend” ourselves against them in order that we can discuss or dialogue about the differences. This is a noble effort. But what we cannot do is to fail to come to terms with ideas that claim to be true and seek to expand themselves into the world by means other than ideas. The solution to the problem is not to say that all ideas are fanatical or wrong. The solution is to take ideas seriously enough to state them properly and to have a philosophy that itself is sufficiently realistic to comprehend why error is attractive—again, almost always because it has some truth to it. The idea that there is no truth is itself an origin of war, an idea that denies that it too is an idea.
Essay: On Wars…and Wars of Ideas
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
It’s like driving a car at night. You never see farther than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
My goal as a writer is for the player to want to see the cutscenes. Earn your audience. Forcing people to sit through your glorified fanfic is the gaming equivalent of date rape.
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Being hung over is like winning the lottery, except they pay you in regret!
Comic: http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001055.html
The monk did not questions…or reason…or argue. He would either bend his will - and surrender that which he had promised to protect - or he would sacrifice the only life he had ever known. It struck his heart with a sureness…a fierceness of clarity. He had given his word… And his word was his bond.
Broken Saints
There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
Poem: The Divine Comedy
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
It is funny how people will talk of the sky falling. It really can’t fall, but at one point, people thought it could. The truth is the sky just is, and what matters is what lies under it.
If you don’t wanna run out of ideas the best thing to do is not to execute them. You can tell yourself that you don’t have the time or resources to do ‘em right. Then they stay around in your head like brain crack. No matter how bad things get, at least you have those good ideas that you’ll get to later.
Some people get addicted to that brain crack. And the longer they wait, the more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea should be executed. And they imagine it on a beautiful platter with glitter and rose petals. And everyone’s clapping for them. But the bummer is most ideas kinda suck when you do ‘em. And no matter how much you plan you still have to do something for the first time. And you’re almost guaranteed the first time you do something it’ll blow. But somebody who does something bad three times still has three times the experience of that other person who’s still dreaming of all the applause.
Some people get addicted to that brain crack. And the longer they wait, the more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea should be executed. And they imagine it on a beautiful platter with glitter and rose petals. And everyone’s clapping for them. But the bummer is most ideas kinda suck when you do ‘em. And no matter how much you plan you still have to do something for the first time. And you’re almost guaranteed the first time you do something it’ll blow. But somebody who does something bad three times still has three times the experience of that other person who’s still dreaming of all the applause.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Poem: Little Gidding
Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truely; the ill deeds along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly. The rest… is silence…
TV: Beast Wars
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
Every desire for good and happiness is for each person a very great and insidious Love. (…) Love is the desire to possess what is good for ever.
I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
The poor, the illiterate, the ignorant, the afflicted; Let these be your God.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
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