Erlank Pienaar
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Erlank Pienaar
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“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work... See more
Tina Roth Eisenberg • quotes – Page 7 – swissmiss
Only you can change the world. If only I can convince every single human on earth simultaneously of this fact. Life goal.
I was a film geek. Film geeks don't have a whole lot of tangible things to show for their passion and commitment to film. They just watch movies all the time. What they do have to show is a high regard for their own opinion. They've learned to break down a movie. They understand what they like and don't like about a film. And they feel that they're
... See more“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”
— Carl Jung
"Things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. When you
understand that, you abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real
masterpiece." - Leonard Cohen
Authenticity shines, insecurity shouts... Bricks and mortar. Make good bricks. Have ready mortar. Humbly, the house rises. Build slowly but surely. The first house, you were born into. Good, bad, otherwise. The second house, you build yourself. Probably lopsided. Relax, the present determines the past, you’ll see ;) It gets better as you go along. Once you know it to be so. It takes a while, stay with it. The sand you stand on now, was your parents rock, then. Sand is in bricks and mortar; all’s connected. Find your own site, the rock of you, build there. It becomes the sand for the bricks your kids will be made from, and will make themselves and their world of.
Alexi Pappas on how the story you tell yourself is the most powerful one in the world.
“How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you feel about them. Reframing our goals and rewriting our stories are powerful tools. Nobody can tell us how to feel about something. We can make our shortcomings into something beautiful if we want to. How... See more
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
On the importance of tacit knowledge and why reality has a surprising amount of detail. Without some kind of direct experience to use as a touchstone, people don't have the context that gives them a place in their minds to put the things you are telling them.
The things you say often don't stick, and the few things that do stick are often
... See moreBut I see links.net as a model for the kind of website I want to build. The fact that Justin’s consciousness from almost 30 years ago is frozen into the Internet is perhaps the most interesting part of this whole story. Decades later, here I am, reliving his past in detail. His adventure is perhaps fresher in my mind than his, considering I’m the... See more
Michael Dean • The First Online Writer
Perhaps ‘Sublime’ can become our ‘legacy’ presence on the web. A permanent record of thoughts and collections forever linked to ‘those who came before’
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it,
play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good
for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it
now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the
signal to spend it now. Something more will
... See moreOn creating a Body Of Work as you progress in discovering what you’re thinking of and why you’re thinking of it, then becoming the person who realises that you’re not a fixed entity, but creating yourself anew as you bravely stumble along unbecoming the default mimesis that is hiding your true and ever emergent self.
These astonishing adaptations are the sum total of myriad small defiances of prediction — chances taken on the improbable and the untested, wild guesses at the shape of the possible — without which bats would not exist. But they do, and we need them. We need bats — “swallows with spools of dark thread sewing the shadows together,” D.H. Lawrence... See more
Why Bats Shouldn’t Exist: The Limits of Knowledge, the Pitfalls of Prediction, and the Triumph of the Possible Over the Probable
The intelligence of life and the adaptability of nature. We live in the sacred expression of God’s exploration, life as the only absolute. Love it.