(Source: karaniwangbinatilyo)
Posted 22 hours ago
Listen, there’s something I must tell. I’ve never, never seen it so clearly. But it doesn’t matter a bit if you don’t understand, because each one of you is quite perfect as you are, even if you don’t know it. Life is basically a gesture, but no one, no thing, is making it. For it isn’t being driven by anything; it just happens freely of itself. It’s a gesture of motion, of sound, of color, and just as no one is making it, it isn’t happening to anyone. Pain and suffering are simply extreme forms of play, and there isn’t anything in the whole universe to be afraid of because it doesn’t happen to anyone! There isn’t any substantial ego at all. The ego is a kind of flip, a knowing of knowing, a fearing of fearing. It’s an extra jazz to experience, a sort of double-take or reverberation, a dithering of consciousness which is the same as anxiety. There is simply no problem of life; it is completely purposeless play—exuberance which is its own end.
Alan Watts (via pseudobollocks)
(Source: hopeful-happiness)
Posted 23 hours ago
When circumstances scare us, our imagination tends to take over, filling our minds with endless anxieties. You need to gain control of your imagination, something easier said than done. Often the best way to calm down and give yourself such control is to force the mind to concentrate on something relatively simple—a calming ritual, a repetitive task that you are good at. You are creating the kind of composure you naturally have when your mind is absorbed in a problem. A focused mind has no room for anxiety or for the effects of an overactive imagination. Once you have regained your mental balance, you can then face the problem at hand. At the first sign of any kind of fear, practice this technique until it becomes a habit. Being able to control your imagination at intense moments is a crucial skill.
Robert Greene — The 33 Strategies of War
Posted 23 hours ago
Your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity—precisely the time when you need strength. What best equips you to cope with the heat of battle is neither more knowledge nor more intellect. What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness.
Robert Greene — The 33 Strategies of War
Posted 1 day ago
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via freyjageist)
Posted 1 day ago
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Heisenberg (via flogicallylawless)
Posted 1 day ago
When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness, lacking the knowledge I needed to live; when I think of how I sinned against my heart and my soul, then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness … Every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If youth only knew. Now my life will change, now I will be reborn.
Fyodor Dostoevsky — in a letter to his brother after his death sentence was converted to four years of hard labor in Siberia
Posted 1 day ago
Life as the product of life. — However far man may extend himself with his knowledge, however objective he may appear to himself, ultimately he reaps nothing but his own biography.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted 1 day ago
Traffic with one’s higher self. — Everyone has his good day, when he finds his higher self; and true humanity demands that we judge someone only when he is in this condition, and not in his workdays of bondage and servitude. We should, for example, assess and honor a painter according to the highest vision he was able to see and portray. But people themselves deal very differently with this, their higher self, and often act out the role of their own self, to the extent that they later keep imitating what they were in those moments. Some regard their ideal with shy humility and would like to deny it: they fear their higher self because, when it speaks, it speaks demandingly. In addition, it has a ghostly freedom of coming or staying away as it wishes; for that reason it is often called a gift of the gods, while actually everything else is a gift of the gods (of chance): this, however, is the man himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
(Source: ludimagister)
Posted 1 day ago
The Way of the Samurai is in desperateness. Ten men or more cannot kill such a man. Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo — Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
(Source: ludimagister)
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