Beard Update.
Is the sun,
Ever gonna break?
Break on through the clouds;
Shine down in all its glory.
Onto me
here on the ground
‘cause I can’t hear a sound
‘cept my own sad story.
Ray LaMontange
Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance.
How, if some day or night, a demon were to sneak after you into your loneliness and say to you: “This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy…must return to you—all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, even this moment and I myself”…Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: “you are a god and never did I hear anything more godlike!”…The question in each and everything, “do you want this once more and innumerable times more?” would weigh upon your actions as the greatest stress. Or how well disposed you would have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation.
The Gay Science
To cling to the words, the concepts, and their interrelations is to concern oneself with the finger rather than the moon at which it points.
The Way of Korean Zen Kusan Sunim
Human experience cannot be analyzed precisely into parts. It rather spills outside of and tends to dissolve the boundaries of any set of fixed categories.
Stephen Kern in the preface to Culture of Time and Space
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