quotes
Martin Heidegger:
"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself." ― Martin Heidegger
Terence McKenna on the imagination:
... See moreThe imagination is central to the alchemical opus; the process goes on in the realm of imagination, taken on to be a physical dimension; we cannot understand the history ahead of us until we imagine a journey into the imagination. We have exhausted the Cartesian paradigm; the future of the human enterprise is in
This Sontag quote maps onto my essay framework of voice (sight, sound, spirit):
“What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more.”
See more: imagery, concision, motif;
Hear more: rhythm, reputation, rhyme;
Feel more: tone, perspective, subtext.
Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Living (p.57)
“Nature has, in her eyes, no law, no uniformity.”
Oscar wild, The Decay of Living (p.55)
“[Fogs] have become the mere mannerism of [cliche], and the exaggerated realism of their method gives dull people bronchitis. Where cultured catch an affect, the uncultured catch cold.”
Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods, p.9:
... See more"Psychedelic shamans now constitute a worldview and growing subculture of hyper-dimensional explorers, many of whom are scientifically sophisticated. A landscape is coming into focus, a region still glimpsed only dimly, but merging, claiming the attention of rational discourse—and possibly threatening to
Ted Hughes:
“And that’s how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a might river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.”
“Beauty is surprise that can be integrated.”
"I worship at the alter of intention and obstacle." — Aaron Sorkin