Julian Arancia

An extremely powerful monologue from Peter Brooks’...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:53:39 -0800

An extremely powerful monologue from Peter Brooks’ Marat/Sade. In it, the Marquis de Sade talks about how the clinical, sterile means of death and violence, the guillotine, divorces humanity from nature. Extremely powerful, somewhat disturbing, and very thought-provoking.

auroraday: Inspiration… sultry, delicious kisses

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:47:15 -0800

auroraday:

Inspiration… sultry, delicious kisses

Crashingly Beautiful: Leonard Cohen on Meditation

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:46:20 -0800

Crashingly Beautiful: Leonard Cohen on Meditation:

parabola-magazine:

…You run through your top ten erotic fantasies, ambition fantasies, revenge fantasies, global ratification fantasies. You run through them all until you bore yourself to death, basically, and the faculty that produces opinions and snap judgments and unrealistic scenarios for your own prominence, after you run through them for a number of years, they cease to have charge. They bore themselves into non-existence. You see them as diversions from another kind of intimacy that you become more interested in–and that is what Socrates said: Know Thyself.

—from Sarah Hampson’s interview with Leonard Cohen in Shambhala Sun.

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Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:45:47 -0800

Parabola Magazine: She Responded

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:37:53 -0800

Parabola Magazine: She Responded:

parabola-magazine:

The birds’ favorite songs
You do not hear,
For their most flamboyant music takes place
When their wings are stretched
Above the trees
And they are smoking the opium
Of pure freedom.
It is healthy for the prisoner
To have faith
That one day he will again move about
Wherever he wants,
Feel the…

I first tried to read both of these not long after my mother...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:18:22 -0800

I first tried to read both of these not long after my mother died ten years ago. I couldn’t read either of them: I was too raw and these hit those raw nerves.

I think it’s time to revisit them.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I..."

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:10:06 -0800

“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing……Only I will remain.”

- Frank Herbert, the Dune series.

Love and Death: The Great Gifts

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:01:18 -0800

“Love and Death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.” - Rainer Maria Rilke as quoted by Roshi Joan Halifax in Being with Dying.

UNMISTAKEN CHILD - Official Theatrical Trailer (by oscopelabs)

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:54:32 -0800

UNMISTAKEN CHILD - Official Theatrical Trailer (by oscopelabs)

Henry V- St. Crispian Day Speech (by conserv8)

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:55:47 -0800

Henry V- St. Crispian Day Speech (by conserv8)

Band of Brothers HBO Mini Series Opening HD (by karthstr33)

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:53:12 -0800

Band of Brothers HBO Mini Series Opening HD (by karthstr33)

The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:49:16 -0800

Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have set us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!

But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.

I shot him dead because—
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That’s clear enough; although

He thought he’d ‘list, perhaps,
Off-hand like—just as I—
Was out of work—had sold his traps—
No other reason why.

Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You’d treat, if met where any bar is,
Or help to half a crown.

My newest acquisition. It’s a great version, I love the...

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:12:00 -0800

My newest acquisition. It’s a great version, I love the thoughts on the ways the Tao mirrors the moon!

In honor of my last blog post, a fabulous song. I first learned...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:26:47 -0700

In honor of my last blog post, a fabulous song. I first learned about this song from the film “The Breakfast Club” as the quoted this at the beginning.

David Bowie - Changes (by emimusic)

blacksheepboy-: (by ad r i a n a a h)

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:11:54 -0700

blacksheepboy-:

(by ad r i a n a a h)

“Playa Time: Dust to Dust” - Burning Man 2011 Time...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:00:18 -0700

“Playa Time: Dust to Dust” - Burning Man 2011 Time Lapse (by meawoppl)

"It is all very well to insist that man is a “social animal” —the fact is obvious enough...."

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:53:00 -0700

“It is all very well to insist that man is a “social animal” —the fact is obvious enough. But that is no justification for making him a mere cog in a totalitarian machine—or in a religious one either, for that matter.”

- Thomas Merton Thoughts in Solitude 1956

Having ridden Metro for many years, I can tell you even the...

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:46:01 -0700

Having ridden Metro for many years, I can tell you even the Buddha would be crabby and pissed off if he hard to ride it.

dcmetropeople:

Seeking Enlightment.

Submitted by Pablo Benavente (www.pablorawphoto.com).

"i hope you live a life you’re proud of. if you find that you’re not, i hope you have the strength to..."

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:15:03 -0700

“i hope you live a life you’re proud of. if you find that you’re not, i hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

- f. scott fitzgerald

[via goodeggs:skeletales]

(via emphasisadded)

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not..."

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:39:07 -0700

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

- The Buddha