natural tendencies

Each of our voices
 has something unique to say.
Not only
 should I not
 mold my life
 to the demands
of external conformity;
 I can't even find
  the model by which
  to live outside myself.
I can only find it within.

-Charles Taylor  (canadian philosopher)   

thought for the day

 "We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny.
 But what we put into it is ours.
He who wills adventure will experience it —
 according to the measure of his courage.
 He who wills sacrifice will be sacrificed —
 according to the measure of his purity of heart."

          ^{- dag hammarskjold  (+1961)}

why bother

If you copy, it means

           you're working

   without any real feeling.

No two people on earth are alike,

           and it's got to be that way in music

          or it isn't music.

- billie holiday

solid like a rock

prayer is nothing
but friendly intercourse
and frequent solitary converse
with Him
 Who we know loves us

   - theresa of avila  (doctor of the church )






















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another way of knowing

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do,
and shudder to know the taint in our own selves,
that awe cracks the mind's shell
 and enters the heart.

    -denise levertov

human perception properly placed

"  [    ]..., there are real things out there
 whose characters are independent
of our opinion of them."

  -Charles Sanders Peirce

Dree-ee-ee-ee-eam dream dream dream

Manifesto of Surrealism: The mere word "freedom" is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misue it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery- even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness- is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be, and this is enough to remove to some slight degree the terrible injunction...

Andre Breton