Isis Copal
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Isis Copal
“In nature, a whole encloses the parts, and yet a larger whole encloses the whole enclosing the parts. By enlarging our field of view, what is thought of as a whole becomes, in fact, nothing more than one part of a larger whole. Yet another whole encloses this whole in a concentric series that continues on to infinity.”
(Masanobu Fukuoka)
FRAGMENT XIII
Like the blood orange we have a single
Vocabulary all heart and all skin and can see
Through the dust of incisions the central perimeter
Our imaginations" orbit. Other words,
Old ways are but the trappings and appurtenances
Meant to install change around us like a grotto,
There is nothing laughable
In this. To isolate the kernel of
Our i
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Still in the published city but not yet
overtaken by a new form of despair,
I ask
the diagram: is it the foretaste
of paint
it could so easily be? Or an emptiness
so sudden it leave the girders
whanging in the absence of wind,
the sky milk-blue and astringent?
We know
life is so busy, but a larger activity
shrouds it, and this is
... See moreWhen you encounter a new idea, you change, and so the world changes. When you share an idea with another, they change. When you create a new idea, you restructure the ecological space of ideas itself. At each of these steps, the material world has changed, because ideas and people are part of the world. And when your ideas change so too does your e... See more
eigenrobot • the map is of the territory
“Nothing is more distressing than a thought that escapes itself, than ideas that fly off, that disappear hardly formed, already eroded by forgetfulness or precipitated into others that we no longer master.”
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“We are splinters and mosaics; not, as they used to hold, immaculate, monolithic, consistent wholes.”
Virginia Woolf
“Neem een willekeurige geest gedurende een willekeurig moment op een willekeurige dag. De geest ontvangt een enorme lading indrukken: triviaal, fabelachtig, vluchtig of juist scherp als met een etsnaaldje ingesneden. Van alle kanten komen ze, als een aanhoudende regen van ontelbare deeltjes, en terwijl ze neerdalen en samen het leven van maandag of
... See morePrentis defines embodiment as “the awareness of our body’s sensations, habits, and the beliefs that inform them. Embodiment requires the ability to feel and allow the body’s emotions. This embodied awareness is necessary to realign what we do with what we believe.”