Nobel Prize winning Poet, Wislawa Szymborska, died today at the age of 88. Her poetry is shockingly beautiful and moving. This is my favorite of her works.
A Few Words On The Soul
We have a soul at times.
No one’s got it non-stop,
for keeps.
Day after day,
year after year
may pass without it.
Sometimes
it will settle for awhile
only in childhood’s fears and raptures.
Sometimes only in astonishment
that we are old.
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
This mindF$#@K of a film was impossible to turn away from. Kind of like the journey it depicts wherein horror (dark night) and ecstasy (unitive state) dance and struggle endlessly.
Alejandro Jodorowsky is a fascinating human.
“Vast sky transparent throughout;
a bird flies like a bird. ”
- Dogen
The long awaited, oft written about and frequently speculated on Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is set for release November 7th.
His fiction is famous, but his philosophy has been somewhat controversial as he has been called a visionary, a prophet, a latter-day Gnostic Saint and a madman.
I’ve read bits of the Exegesis at the end of VALIS and it was fascinating. I’m sure the full volume will be mind-bending, dark and illuminating.
I can’t wait to read it.
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
- Hermann Hesse, from Demian
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes of all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Unless we see, we cannot think.
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite.
- William Blake, from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
