January 2012
The Mountain →
“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very...”
– William James (via commondense)
“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original...”
– The Autobiography of Malcolm X (via cultureofresistance)
December 2011
“I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”
– Tom Wolfe
“I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it...”
– Ken Kesey
“When I see bad-looking bikers with black leather studs on their wrists hanging...”
– Ken Kesey
“Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students...”
– Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water (via cultureofresistance)
“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead...”
– Ken Kesey
“When people ask me about LSD, I always make a point of telling them you can have...”
– Ken Kesey
Jonti “Firework Spraying Moon” →
“You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things.”
– Ken Kesey
“When I came through Yellowstone park with this bus I saw a sign that said,...”
– Ken Kesey, Magic Trip (film)
“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery....”
– Ken Kesey
Thanks From #OWS →
As 2011 comes to a close, Occupy takes a moment to reflect and thank all of their supporters with the official “Occupy Wall Street Thank You Video”:
http://youtu.be/YZ6dNVRJEUA
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“In Endgame, is I’ve put my premises in boldface in the front of my book, and one...”
– Derrick Jensen, talking about Endgame (via cultureofresistance)
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“How can another see into me, into my most secret self, without my being able to...”
– Jacques Derrida (via cosmicunity)
“What if you were to die today… Tomorrow is not a promise but a chance”
– Beth Nimmo, Rachel’s Tears: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott (via jerzee55)
“An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation....”
– Adolf Hitler (via cultureofresistance)
“So, you know the story; when the sixth patriarch was given his office as...”
– Alan Watts (via plainoldfucked)
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain (via likethesun)
“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into...”
– Henri J. M. Nouwen (via psychedelicmandala)
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
– Johann Von Goethe (via nirvikalpa)
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The Power of Imagination →
sunrawsunraw:
The Power of Imagination
I receive many questions on how to do this, how to engage that transformative process. What if the answer is as simple as using your imagination? Thoughts cannot give you answers. Thoughts are just temporary waves that can change at any moment. Knowledge is in your imagination. I imagined this website and now you’re all here. Welcome!
Thoughts...
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work...”
– Marcel Proust (via cultureofresistance)
“Everything that we speak of as Western civilization we could speak of as...”
– David Abram (via cultureofresistance)
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“Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind.”
– Me’Shell NdegeOcello (via mymividaloca) (via vanillaandlavender)
“In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies (via millenniumhandandshrimp)
“If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not...”
– Alan Watts: The Wisdom Of Insecurity (via amor-omnibus)
“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy,...”
– Albert Einstein (via lucifelle)
“Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Two Myths That Keep The World Poor →
cultureofresistance:
Global poverty is a hot topic right now. But anyone serious about ending it needs to understand the true causes, argues Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva.
From rock singer Bob Geldof to UK politician Gordon Brown, the world suddenly seems to be full of high-profile people with their own plans to end poverty. Jeffrey Sachs, however, is not a simply a do-gooder but one of...