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The beginning of adolescence seems to mark the abrupt end of artistic development in terms of drawing skills for many adults. As children, they confronted an artistic crisis, a conflict between their increasingly complex perceptions of the world around them and their current level of art skill.
Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.
According to Fertility Hollis, there is no chaos. There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish.
Book: “Survivor” by Chuck Palahniuk
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
We choose our destiny in the way we treat others.
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.
I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
See, you finish a book by writing it, but in my head, it’s not really done until it’s sitting in your hand.
Freedom isn’t worth having if it doesn’t involve the freedom to make mistakes.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
I’ll tell you a riddle. You’re waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don’t know for sure. But it doesn’t matter. How can it not matter to you where the train will take you?
Movie: Inception
A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.
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.
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