Good morning.
There is nothing wrong with the world, nor has there ever been. The problem is my steadfast devotion to two false gods, ME and MINE, and to the memories that enshroud and ennoble them.
once you understand that we never outgrew wanting to watch gladiatorial battles and throw tomatoes at people in the stocks and eat junk food at public hangings the internet makes a lot more sense.
Another ‘hidden’ MB feature I just stumbled across… automatic summary generation of bookmarked links! How long has that been there?! 😂
You don’t get where you need to be if you try and go where you want to be.
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
— Carl Jung
Pumpkin.
We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.
— Kurt Vonnegut
You discipline yourself, you meditate, you suppress certain desires, you force your mind to fit into a frame. And so your whole life, your whole consciousness is twisted.
— Krishnamurti
Good morning.
I haven’t listened to the Beastie Boys in a loooooong time… oh boy! Very remiss of me 😕 Did they release a dud album? Nope. What a catalogue! With a gun to my head I’d have to go Check Your Head… I think! 😂🥴
Because why not?
via Mark Stoneman
If you want to defeat the enemy, raise their children.
There is no place to stand outside the loop. No clean point of entry. No final exit. No start to locate. No end to reach. Only this—forever turning.
— Robert Saltzman, I Framed the Image. The Image Framed the Loop
via graeber.social
Good afternoon.
It’s over, the ‘buddhas and patriarchs’ disease that once gripped my chest. Now I’m just an ordinary man with a clean slate.
— Daito Kokushi
Good afternoon.
This is always it, with or without language or meaning, what is here now is everything.
Good morning.