October 2011
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
—Søren Kierkegaard (via perkhoel)
September 2011
“We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt. Most, I found, were of working-class or otherwise modest backgrounds, kids who did exactly what they were told they should: studied, got into college, and are now not just being punished for it, but humiliated – faced with a life of being treated as deadbeats, moral reprobates.”
—David Graeber at the Guardian, in the best piece I’ve read yet on Occupy Wall Street (via pax-caelestis)
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
— Martin Luther King Jr. (via alexandrahamilton)
“We’re playing with half a deck as long as we tolerate that the cardinals of government and science should dictate where human curiousity can legitimately send its attention and where it can not. It’s an essentially preposterous situation. It is essentially a civil rights issue, because what we’re talking about here is the repression of a religious sensibility. In fact, not a religious sensibility, the religious sensibility. Not built on some con game spun out by eunichs, but based on the symbiotic relationship that was in place for our species for fifty thousand years before the advent of history, writing, priestcraft and propaganda. So it’s a clarion call to recover a birthright.”
—Terrence McKenna, Non-Ordinary States Through Vision Plants, 1988 (via ninefoldgoddess)
Seahorse- Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart
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“In a time of drastic change one can be too preoccupied with what is ending or too obsessed with what seems to be beginning. In either case one loses touch with the present and with its obscure but dynamic possibilities. You do not need to know what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and embrace them with courage, faith and hope. In such an event, courage is the authentic form taken by love.”
—Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (via thisfeelingcallsfortea)
I got my shadowscapes deck in the mail today yayyyyy! And a fresh hardback copy of The Golden Compass! and Spotify is awesome! and cookies!!
