Night and music

'Night and music. The ear, the organ of fear, could have evolved as greatly as it has only in the night and the twilight of obscure caves and woods, in accordance with the mode of life of the age of timidity, that is to say the longest human age there has ever been; in bright daylight the ear is less necessary. That is how music acquired the character of an art of night and twilight'.

- Nietzsche

Photos from my Belize trip

Had a wonderful, relaxing time. I love Belize!

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Two kinds of intelligence

There are two kinds of intelligence; one acquired,
as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts
from books and from what the teacher says,
collecting information from the traditional sciences
as well as from the new sciences.

With such intelligence you rise in the world.
You get ranked ahead or behind others
in regard to your competence in retaining
information. You stroll with this intelligence
in and out of the fields of knowledge, getting always more
marks on your preserving tablets.

There is another kind of tablet, one
already completed and preserved inside you.
A spring overflowing it's springbox. A freshness
in the center of the chest. This other intelligence
does not turn yellow or stagnate. It's fluid,
and it doesn't move from outside to inside
though the conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainhead
from within you, moving out.

RUMI, "Two Kinds of Intelligence"
translated by Coleman Barks

some great Jiddu Krishnamurti quotes

"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear." - J Krishnamurti

"Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation, and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a sense of security—religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these dominates man's thinking, relationships and his daily life. These are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man in every relationship." - J Krishnamurti