Emma Cohen
@ercohen
Emma Cohen
The conscious mind is awareness of the sublime and it tells us what to do by showing us when we are off the track.
Obedience to the conscious mind carries us forward to greater
awareness.
Disobedience of the conscious mind carries us backward to less
awareness.
With more accurate obedience we become rapidly more aware of the sublime: of beauty and... See more
Obedience to the conscious mind carries us forward to greater
awareness.
Disobedience of the conscious mind carries us backward to less
awareness.
With more accurate obedience we become rapidly more aware of the sublime: of beauty and... See more
Agnes Martin, Writings, 112
In one of her notebooks [Arendt] asks: "Is there a way of thinking that is not tyrannical?"
From What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt, xxi
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
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There are two parts of the mind. The outer mind that records facts and the inner mind that says "yes" and "no". When you think of something that you should do the inner mind says "yes" and you feel elated. We call this inspiration.
portrait of the artist and in development
Agnes Martin, Writings, 153
You can only be happy by being on the path of your unfolding potential.
The path will be revealed to you by a request to your own mind.
The path will be revealed to you by a request to your own mind.
Agnes Martin, Writings, 116
To live and work by inspiration you have to stop thinking.
You have to hold your mind still in order to hear inspiration clearly.
You have to hold your mind still in order to hear inspiration clearly.
portrait of the artist and in development
Agnes Martin, Writings, 137
Human misery would be intolerable if it were not diluted in time. We have to prevent it from being diluted in order that it should be intolerable.
"And when they had had their fill of tears" (Iliad) -this is another way of making the worst suffering bearable.
We must not weep so that we may not be comforted.* All suffering which does not detach us is... See more
"And when they had had their fill of tears" (Iliad) -this is another way of making the worst suffering bearable.
We must not weep so that we may not be comforted.* All suffering which does not detach us is... See more
Weil, Gravity & Grace, 60
The world must be regarded as containing something of a void in order that it may have need of God. That presupposes evil.
To love truth means to endure the void and, as a result, to accept death. Truth is on the side of death.
To love truth means to endure the void and, as a result, to accept death. Truth is on the side of death.
Weil, Gravity & Grace, 56