“You don’t have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.”
—Andrew McMahon
July 2012
20 posts
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
—Viktor Frankl
Untitled
Emanating beneath tired metaphors,
lost within representation and symbolic gestures,
wondering when the smoke and mirrors will fall away.
Why Go Out? by Sheila Heti →
sheilaheti.net
“I’m always super-conscious of how whenever I go out into the world, whenever I get involved in a relationship, my idea of who I think I am utterly collides with the reality of who I actually am. And I continue to go out even though who I am always comes up short. I always prove myself to be less generous, less charming, less considerate, not as bold or energetic or intelligent or courageous as I imagined in my solitude. And I’m always being insulted, or snubbed, or disappointed. And I’m never in my pajamas.
And yet, in some way, maybe this is better…”
Transformation
David Gray
David Gray - Transformation:
Oh my heart is bold as brass
Roll it out like summer grass
Take me back where I come from
Transformation has begun
Throwing off the clothes of day
Complications fall away
All I am is laid to waste
Transformation takes my place
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
—Oscar Wilde
“We are not separate. Our sense of separateness is superficial and exists only in the physical dimension. In our human element, we are not separate; we’re very much connected. Every other human being is just as precious as we are, and worthy of as much respect and love and consideration. This understanding needs to manifest in our conduct in each moment. This is the part of the Work that will transform you.”
—A.H. Almaas
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
—Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
No One's Gonna Come
Sondre Lerche
Sondre Lerche - No One’s Gonna Come:
It doesn’t make sense how you can leave the ground
and enter the sky and stay there too.
Down in the valley, a myriad of fools.
And sometimes they invite you to do what you do.
And these fools share my opinion that flying is crazy too.
“Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is—the picture of the world that’s presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies.”
—Noam Chomsky, Media Control
Jimmy
Tool
Tool - Jimmy:
Moving me with a sound.
Opening me within a gesture.
Drawing me down and in,
showing me where it all began, eleven…
I wish that I could see you turn and run to play.
Dreams are fading.
Carry my ancient soul.
Carry me into the light.
Aim your body heavenly, enduring a memory.
I’ll come to your light.
Hold your light.
Hold your light where I can see it.
Hold your light.
Eleven, lead me through each gentle step, by step,
by inch, by loaded memory.
I’ll move to heal.
As soon as pain allows so we can reunite
and both move on together.
“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.”
—Albert Einstein
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
—Sigmund Freud
