Quotes

On Spirit, fragments (Cusp of Magic)

“Spirit is something higher than intellect in that it includes not only the latter, but the feelings as well. It is a direction, or principle, of life that strives towards shining, supra-human heights.”

~ C.G. Jung (Commentary),

The Secret Of The Golden Flower

I Ching, The Great Treatise, Part 1 (fragments)

…in the last analysis the world is a system of homogeneous relationships — that it is a cosmos, not a chaos.

The ultimate frame of reference for all…

Saint Augustine, on being asked what is time: “I know what it is, but when you ask me I don’t.”

“Where do the flowers come from?”

Even the God of spring does not know.

“The highest mountain, the oldest books, the strangest people, there you will find the stone.”

Beauty as the universal fight against entropy

“No school has a monoply on beauty. Beauty, like order, occurs in many places in this world, but only as a local and temporary fight against the Niagara of increasing entropy.”

Norbert Weiner, The Human Use of Human Beings (p.134)

questions

The question may be put infinitely, how do you know that you know, that you know, that you know? &c.

Thomas Hobbes, 1641, in response to Descartes’s Meditations

The Shape of Water

Unable to perceive the shape of You,

I find You all around me.

Your presence fills my eyes with Your love,

It humbles my heart,

For You are everywhere…
 — guillermo del toro

walking by sight

Whether you think you can do something 
is so much less important than 
whether you actually can or can’t do that thing.

You need to assemble a case that proves you can. 
You need to do the work that stands 
as evidence for what you’re capable of.

the best art

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. 
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
 — Andy Warhol

The Doubt

Kill therefore with the sword of wisdom 
the doubt born of ignorance that lies in thy heart.

Be one in self-harmony, in Yoga, and arise, 
great warrior, arise.
 — Bhagavad Gita