“It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to better days,
but revelations, and the lavishness of someone’s soul inspired and ablaze.”
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960)
~ Ablaze ~ Feel the Fire!
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Tag Archives: philosophy
~ Envy
“Envying another’s beauty will diminish your own.
But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.”
~ Daisaku Ikeda
~ Beast Within
“ManBeast”, with “AntiCross” in the background.
“I once had been in the middle of a mass chaos and terrible riots.
There, I witnessed how men were truly such as beasts unleashed.”
~Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
A recent piece from masqueHysteria as displayed at Venue 222 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
~ Caretake this moment
“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.”
~ Epictetus
~ Do not despise your own place and hour.
“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
~ John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature
~Bukowksi on Whitman
“when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”
I know what he
meant
I know what he
wanted:
to be completely alive every moment
in spite of the inevitable.
we can’t cheat death but we can make it
work so hard
that when it does take
us
it will have known a victory just as
perfect as
ours”
~ Charles Bukowski
~Tempus Fugit
“They are not long,
the days of wine and roses.
Out of a misty dream,
our path emerges for a while,
then closes,
within a dream.”
~ Ernest Dowson
The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
Wishing you all the very best of weekends!
~ Change is Good!
The only constant is change.
“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
~ Simone de Beauvoir
~ birth and Death
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
~ George Santayana
~ Experience
Orb Weaver
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”
~ Henry James
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