Mateo
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Mateo
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
Erin Glasstwitter.com... See moreThere's a writer in England called Colin Wilson who became known as a translator of the philosophers and thinkers of the 20th century. He was able to write them in such a way that everybody else could understand those great minds. He had a facility for understanding and then passing on the information—he was a medium.
I like to flatter myself that’s
One thing I don’t like about computers in the home is they cheat people out of the experience of becoming. The important life experiences are food, sex, but also becoming. And this involves reading, studying, practicing an art, whatever.
— Kurt Vonnegut, 1999
Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do—take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.
Brian Eno
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under... See more
Life in the Afternoon | Esquire | FEBRUARY, 1962
God will always believe in your own ability to mend your own ways.
— Bob Dylan, GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech 1991
Seriousness saddles the work with a burden. It misses the playful side of being human. The chaotic exuberance of being present in the world. The lightness of pure enjoyment for enjoyment’s sake.