"It's at the moment when we begin to intellectualize a phenomenon that in reality it disappears."

“so, in all technologies and images, and also in appearances, we don’t know whether the object or the world is just toying with us. Just as, with thought, we don’t know if we’re thinking the world or the world is thinking us."
~ jean baudrillard (rest in playful peace monsieur)

"If we continue to think in terms of a Cartesian dualism of mind vs. matter, we shall probably also come to see the world in terms of God versus man, élite versus people, chosen race versus others; nation versus nation; and man versus environment. It is doubtful whether a species having both an advanced technology and this strange way of looking at the world can endure."
– Gregory Bateson Steps to an Ecology of Mind via www.global-vision.org/sacred/index.html

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope. For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love. For love would be the love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith. But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not yet ready for thought. So the darkness shall be light, and the stillness the dancing.
-T.S. Eliot (via marco in the doomsday code thread - 2012 tribe)

epigrams & interludes : 106. In music, the passions enjoy themselves
~ nietzsche, beyond good & evil

I LOVE U COSMIC GIGGLE! ~via sir harry essex's wall

1. Just as the Buddha said: »I speak unto them whose eyes are covered but with little dust.« Covered but only a little. That is to say, he does not speak unto them whose eyes are totally covered with dust, and not unto them whose eyes are not covered at all. ~ András László, via auton

"The purpose of the intellectual & the artist is to provoke the contradictions." - Guiliano Pesce

Yes, we play games now. But soon we must learn to dance. The music of the solar system is a dance. Life is not a game, it is a dance. The world was made for dancing.
~alejandro jodorowsky

"everything is the opposite of what it is, isn't it?"
~ harry nilsson via john lennon, final interview

Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing,
There is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in the grass,
The world is too full to think about
Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other'
Doesn't make any sense.
~Rumi (via the MTA)

"If you destroy in yourself the ego for a single day, your darkness will be lighted up." ~Farid Ud Din Attar

Always follow the rhizome by rupture; lengthen, prolong, and relay the line of flight; make it vary, until you have produced the most abstract and tortuous of lines.... --Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

"There was a passionate craving among all ... [intellectuals] ... for a means to express their new concepts. They longed for philosophy, for synthesis. The erstwhile happiness of pure withdrawal each into his own discipline was now felt to be inadequate. Here and there a scholar broke through the barriers of his specialty and tried to advance into the terrain of universality. Some dreamed of a new alphabet, a new language of symbols through which they could formulate and exchange their new intellectual experiences." ~ Herman Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

thought is "...first of all the affirmation of a world in process, an archipelago. Not even a puzzle, whose pieces when fitted together would constitute a whole, but rather a wall of loose, uncemented stones, where every element has a value in itself but also in relation to others: isolated and floating relations, islands and straits, immobile points and sinuous lines." ~Gilles Deleuze (via Deleuze & Space)

"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things that are..." ~Richard Feynmann, The Character of Physical Law (via The Quantum Brain)

"There are some intervals to which I would migrate; to which, methinks, I am already acclimated." ~Thoreau (via Deleuze & Space)