3 turtles, 5 ducks, 6 geese, and 2 loons at the pond today.
"For I declare by the eternal truth, as long as you have the will to do the will of God, and longing for eternity and God, you are not poor: for a poor person is one who wills nothing and desires nothing."
Meister Eckhart, Sermon 52
Valentine’s Eve at the symphony.
"We see a sham world because we live a sham life."
Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism
"I’m too tired to prolong this brutal exchange between a bedragled microbe and a Nobel level thinker."
Larry David in Whatever Works
Google Nexus One: The “Fuck You iPhone” Phone (via TheLandline)
Gimme gimme.
"The question becomes: How far is your head up your own ass?"
Eli
Skin Deep
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"…a bit of entirely virtual cyber-posturing by foreigners didn’t lead to real change in Iran."
NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth
"As a young contemporary adult, I can honestly say that to admit to being a Christian is not considered “cool.” In subcultures such as those that can be found in the San Francisco Bay Area (where I currently reside), if a worldview is not sufficiently “eastern” or “shamanic” or “new age,” it is generally considered patriarchal and outdated."
Living systems turn energy into order. Dead systems turn order into energy.
Google performative dissonance.
(from old class notes I don’t want to lose forever)
"We have scrubbed the world clean of magic."
Alan Watts, The Book, p. 115
Obama's Nobel Prize -
I had the same immediate reaction which I’m certain many others had: this was some kind of bizarre Onion gag that got accidentally transposed onto the wrong website
