huxley

(mystic medusa)

emma goldman♥

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations.
- Emma Goldman

best pick-up line ever//how to make me fall in love with you

"I can't think of anyone else I'd rather survive the Zombie Holocaust with."
(via jezebel)captured: 07.28.10i can think of someone i'd like to survive the zombie holocaust with. :)

Nietzsche

Of all that is written I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

BLOODLUST is a desire for extreme violence and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.

intimate

"Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability…nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff"

-via fetus feces

(pmack628)

rhythm

1. trees in the german winter seen with the fisheye2, 2. Blossom fisheye, 3. Cherry blossoms, 4. Brightest Full Moon!, 5. Winter Half Moon 2, 6. Crescent Moon, 7. weather. beach. achill., 8. France Cavaliers 1, 9. Hayden Point Sunset

In the 1920's Dr. Rudolf Hauschka asked his mentor Rudolf Steiner the ever-challenging question:

“What is life?”

"Study rhythm,” Steiner replied, “Rhythm carries life.”

As he observed the world around him he could see life gains its form from the rhythms of nature. He noted, for example, the way in which the vitality of plants ebbs and flows with the rhythms of passing time, the sap rising and falling with the rhythmical motions of the sun and moon. He saw the power of nature's rhythms on all living things, and realized that life itself was in constant rhythmic flux.
-dr. hauscka

even though this quote came from a cosmetic company & is applied to the how to treat your skin. i was really touched by this quote when i contemplated it on a larger scheme, in relation to life. next time i'm having a shitty day i need to think of this. i need to think that this is just the rhythmic ebb & flow of life, this rhythm is cyclic & things will eventually be ok (then of course they will might get bad again but it's ok.) everything will be ok, just give it time.

happy birthday jack kerouac!

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
- jack kerouac's on the road 1957



things to do to celebrate jack kerouac birthday:

• read one of his books; such as: on the road, the dharma bums, big sur, the uubterraneans, and visions of cody.
• drink red wine, beer, or anything really.
  
• speak in french. his parents were french-canadians & he could speak it, he was 6 when he starting learning enlgish.
• play football. he played during high school & was offered scholarships from notre dame, colombia university, boston college. he accepted colombia offer & played there also
  
• if you're in san francisco, go visit jack kerouac alley. i've been there a few time, it's like walking with his ghost. i could see him everywhere i looked.
• then go to city lights bookstore which was the spot for beat poets, such lawrence ferlinghetti (who i've had the pleasure of staring at - too shy to introduce myself).
• carry around a notebook & write it in when the fancy strikes you.
• take your car on a road trip! now! don't pack, don't plan, don't pick a destination, just do it!
• try some buddhist meditation or a buddhist bible.
• try your hand at stream of consciousness writing, or as kerouac called it 'spontaneous prose', which is the style of on the road. here are the essentials of spontaneous prose as he described it.
• listen to some jazz.

ruess on living

I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. Why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?
-everett ruess 1934

choose life

sheep bones

you’re like a sheep. a fear of wolves is in your [...] bones.
- jiang rong's wolf totem 2004

best book ever: still life with woodpecker

Yes, I love the trite mythos of the outlaw. I love the self-conscious romanticism of the outlaw. I love the black wardrobe of the outlaw. I love the fey smile of the outlaw. I love the tequila of the outlaw & the beans of the outlaw. I love the way respectable men sneer and say ‘outlaw’. I love the way young women palpitate and say ‘outlaw’. The outlaw boat sails against the flow and I love it. Outlaws toilet where badgers toilet, and I love it. All outlaws are photogenic and I love it. ‘When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free:’ that’s a graffito seen in Anacortes, and I love that. There are outlaw maps that lead to outlaw treasure, and I love those maps especially. Unwilling to wait for mankind to improve, the outlaw live as if that day were here, and I love that most of all.

sorry ass mother fucker.

my boyfriend just emailed this to me. i cried for hours after hearing it. it's amazing.
obama is tired of your motherfucking shit.

outlaws as wolves

(from vargr: the institution of outlawry)
The association of outlaws and wolves is very strong in the Germanic cultures. The Old Norse word vargr (OSw: varghær, OHG: warg, OE: wearg ) has been translated in a number of ways, and several Indo-European root words have been claimed as its source. These include *wergh (“strangle”, via the Germanic *wargaz) (8) and the Germanic “wacrer” (to wander). The latter is the root for the modern English word vagrant. From the fact that the major component of outlawry was banishment, this last option seems to be the most likely source. Those who transgress against society are forced to wander from their homeland.
After the Christianization of Northern Europe, an additional aspect of being outside of the faith as well:
_Vargr_ is the same as _u-argr_, restless; _argr_ being the same as the Anglo-Saxon _earg_. _Vargr_ had its double signification in Norse. It signified a wolf, and also a godless man.(9)
One author holds that the association between wolves and outlaws seems to be a later phenomenon particular to the Norse cultures: …it is only late, and mostly in Norse, that vargr (cognate with warg) acquires the meaning "wolf" along with "criminal." In Old English, wearg means almost exclusively "criminal" or "accursed being." (10)
In Anglo-Saxon lands, the term “wolf’s-head” became an accepted term for criminals (11). This connection itself is not so simple as it may seem. At first view, it seems to be made due to the similarity in temperament between wolves and criminals. However, deeper meanings to this connection have been suggested. Some authors have suggested that the condemnation of an outlaw as vargr is a symbolic pronouncement that the man is now a wolf, and is worthy of strangulation (12).
Thus it is well seen that Sigi has slain the thrall and murdered him; so he is given forth to be a wolf in holy places , and may no more abide in the land with his father (13)
Völundur, Egill and Slagfinnur, the third son of Ívaldi, chose to become outlaws, and travelled all the way to the northernmost edge of the world, to Úlfdalir (Wolf-dales), where Gods never go. (14)
One author has suggested that there is also a symbolic connection between the transformation of men into wolves, and the feminization of men through the practice of Seidr magic and in playing the passive role in sodomy. The term ergi, may have applied to both of these receptive roles (15).

inauguration

while watching the inauguration i truly understood what michelle obama meant when she said, "for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country."

mill on the ability to be happy

Whoever supposes that this preference take place at a sacrifice of happiness - that the superior being, in anything like equal circumstances, is not happier than the inferior - confounds the two very different ideas of happiness and content. It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect.
-john stuart mill's utilitarianism 1861

donyale lune

"I learned that I like to live, I like to make love, I really do love somebody, I love flowers, I love the sky, I like bright colors, I like animals."
-donyale luna

death of a salesman

Biff: "Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway in the hot mornings in the summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still - that's how you build a future."
- arthur miller's death of a salesman 1949

carl sagan on god

"Some people think God is an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white beard, sitting on a throne somewhere up there in the sky, busily tallying the fall of every sparrow. Others — for example Baruch Spinoza and Albert Einstein — considered God to be essentially the sum total of the physical laws which describe the universe. I do not know of any compelling evidence for anthropomorphic patriarchs controlling human destiny from some hidden celestial vantage point, but it would be madness to deny the existence of physical laws."
- carl sagan's broca's brain 1979