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Hesitation to use the I may be a tell-tale sign that the I does not know itself fully. Or maybe the I doesn’t know which I, of the many different Is, to use. In any case, there is an I. And there is a You. The You is validated by the I. There couldn’t be a You without the I. But the I also becomes a You through the validation of I through You. And so, the I also exists thanks to You. And so to You who is reading this confused speech of I, THANK YOU. I's existence has become meaningful because of You.
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Created by Eugene Villar.“… it’s not just learning things that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.”
Princess Rhyme, The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster“Have you every heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you’re all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.”
The Soundkeeper, The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
In German, we don’t say “I love you”, we say “Schnitzel Wurst Lederhosen, Alter, Herr Pünktlichkeit” which roughly translates to ‘I adore you so much, I would even take the Deutsche Bahn to get to you’. How profound and beautiful.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state of god-like awareness one sings; in this realm the world exists as poem.Song: “Do the Joy” by Air
Spectrum of Colours Revealed Through Lit String
British artist, physicist, and all-around science enthusiast Paul Friedlander produces kinetic light sculptures that provide a colourful feast for the eyes. Each piece in his body of work offers a visual medley of light and motion by rapidly rotating a piece of string through white light. The vibrating rope becomes invisible to the human eye, but colours from the light (which would normally be invisible to the naked eye) are revealed in rapid succession.
The scientific artist gives insight into the history of his career shift into the arts and explains the science in it all: “I decided to focus on kinetic art: a subject in which I could bring together my divided background and combine my knowledge of physics with my love of light. In 1983, at London’s ICA, I exhibited the first sculptures to use chromastrobic light, a discovery I had made the previous year. Chromastrobic light changes colour faster than the eye can see, causing the appearance of rapidly moving forms to mutate in the most remarkable ways.”
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/paul-friedlander-kinetic-light-sculptures
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»was es ist« by erich fried
what it is
it is madness
says reason
it is what it is
says loveit is unhappiness
says caution
it is nothing but pain
says fear
it has no future
says insight
it is what it is says loveit is ridiculous
says pride
it is foolish
says caution
it is impossible
says experience
it is what it is says love
And we are put on earth a little space
That we may learn to bear the beams of love
William Blake in “The Little Black Boy,” found in Songs of Innocence and Experience
Song: “All For Love” by Sean Hayes
It is to Alice’s credit that she doesn’t hesitate for a moment to discard her preconceptions when she comes across situations that patently refute them. In doing so, she displays an admirable readiness to encounter reality on its own terms, a receptive cast of mind that many philosophers would include among the most important “intellectual virtues” or character traits that assist in the discovery of truth.George A. Dunn and Brian McDonald in Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser
Song: “Alice” by Pogo
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in one’s life. At present, people study useless sciences, but forget to study this, the most important knowledge.Jean Jaques Rousseau, cited in A Calendar of Wisdom
Song: “The Good Life” by Bobby Darin
Think of it: zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another: ‘My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death’. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity.Robert Wright in The Moral Animal
Song: “Evolution” by Jill Soubule
We live in a society where romantic love is idealized: if we search long enough, we will find “the one,” the soulmate who is perfect for us, who will grow and change at the exact same rate we do, who loves us exactly as we are and never expects us to change, who always wants us sexually, never has bad breath or gets grouchy, and is perfectly desirable in every way. We expect our partner to fully meet us on an intellectual, physical, sexual, and spiritual basis; to be our lover, best friend, a companion, confidante, confessor, therapist, and family, all rolled into one. This sets up monumental expectations which all of us invariably fall short of.Laura Davis in Allies in Healing
Song: “Love Is Everything” by Jane Siberry
Artist Rob Gonsalves was born in Toronto, Canada in 1959. During his childhood, he developed an interest in drawing from imagination using various media. By age twelve, his awareness of architecture grew as he learned perspective techniques and began to do his first paintings and renderings of imagined buildings.
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