September 2011
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Music: the breathing of statues. Perhaps:
the silence of paintings. Language...
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from “On Music,” 1918, trans. Robert Bly (Thank you, proustitute)
April 2011
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Music and politics: For those wondering why I... →
January 2011
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In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only...
– Haruki Murakami (via silentsigh57)
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I Cannot be Known
themagiclantern:
by Paul Éluard
I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for my man’s gleam A better fate than for the common nights Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth In your eyes who reveal to us Our endless solitude Are no longer what they thought themselves to be You cannot be...
You know when you see something like a marvelous mountain against the blue sky,...
– J. Krishnamurti, the essence of beauty from a talk in Saanen, July 18th 1978 (This is wonderful paynehollow. Thank you.) (via crashinglybeautiful)
Creating Peace →
crashinglybeautiful:
“What is mindfulness? It is the ability to appreciate our own life, moment to moment, because we are able to access our own consciousness. There is the material world and there is the conscious world, and meditation deals with the conscious world. Reducing our activities for even ten minutes a day by sitting down to contemplate our lives leads to awareness that our situation...
// \\ // \\ // \\: I speak to you over cities I... →
I speak to you over cities I speak to you over plains
My mouth is against your ear The two sides of the walls face my voice which acknowledges you. I speak to you of eternity. O cities memories of cities cities draped with our desires cities early and late cities strong…