The Perfect Circle

neither created nor destroyed like the winds still the silent sound of these words rings: we will...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:20:00 -0400

neither created nor destroyed

like the winds still

the silent sound of these words rings:

we will live forever

The Caterpillar Effect

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:51:00 -0500

Questions and answers are like Yin and Yang; both are part of the same construct. Opposites that give each other character. Just like a light that gives us knowledge about our surrounding darkness.

Caterpillars to get from one place to another by contracting and expanding to push forward. If you take the motion as an analogue for how ideas give way to better ones, questions are the contractions and answers are the expansions.

Questions make the unknown known and answers lead to better questions.

So a caterpillar goes on about its day. Voraciously feeding itself. Doing what it feels is right. Becoming the cocoon and eventually the butterfly. The butterfly causes a tornado. The tornado uproots a tree.

Moral of the story: Today you might feel like a little caterpillar. But keep pushing forward. Keep chewing through the bitter leaves. One day you will be flying. Sipping on nectar..

And one day, you’ll get there.

This is what it takes to go viral

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:26:54 -0500

This is what it takes to go viral

"Don’t just like. Like is watered down. Like is mediocre. Like is the wishy-washy emotion of..."

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:32:00 -0500

“Don’t just like.
Like is watered down.
Like is mediocre.
Like is the wishy-washy emotion of the content.
Athletes don’t do it for the like of a sport.
Artists don’t suffer for the like of art.
There is no ‘I like N.Y t-shirt’.
And Romeo didn’t just like Juliet.
LOVE - now that’s powerful stuff.
Love changes things.
Upsets things.
Conquers things.
Love is at the root of everything good that has ever happened and will ever happen.
LOVE what you do.”

- Anon

You read to become enlightened Have you ever examined...

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:05:35 -0500

You read to become enlightened

Have you ever examined yourself?

You run to your temples and shrines

Have you ever stepped into your soul?

The fight with the devil goes on everyday

Never taking the time to wrestle with your own character

Bulleh Shah don’t just reach for what is in the skies

You have yet to discover what lies in your heart

Enough, my friend

The pursuit of knowledge

Enough, my friend.

Audio

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:27:44 -0500

Stardust, you and I Had a little while together In our infinite lives Maybe we will bump into each...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:00:00 -0500

Stardust, you and I

Had a little while together

In our infinite lives

Maybe we will bump into each other

but for now this is goodbye.

Photo

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:48:25 -0400

Excerpts from On The Nature of Things

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:08:41 -0400

I
No single thing abides; but all things flow.
Fragment to fragment clings—the things thus grow
Until we know and name them. By degrees
They melt, and are no more the things we know.

II
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift
I see the suns, I see the systems lift
Their forms; and even the systems and the suns
Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

III
Thou soo, oh earth—thine empires, lands, and seas—
Least, with thy stars, of all the galaxies,
Globed from the drift like these, like these thou too
Shalt go. Thou art going, hour by hour, like these.

VI
Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian grain—
A rose today. But you will ask in vain
Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday
It was the dust, the sunshine and the rain.

VII
This bowl of milk, the pitch on yonder jar,
Are strange and far-bound travelers come from far
This is a snow-flake that was once a flame—
The flame was once the fragment of a star.

X
Where is the coolness when no cool winds blow?
Where is the music when the lute lies low?
Are not the redness and the red rose one,
And the snow’s whiteness one thing with the snow?

XII
For, as our limbs and organs all unite
to make our sum of suffering and delight,
And without eyes and ears and touch and tongue,
Were no such things as taste and sound and sight.

XIX
The seeds that once were we take flight and fly,
Winnowed to earth, or whirled along the sky,
Not lost but disunited. Life lives on.
It is the lives, the lives, the lives, that die.

- Lucretius (translated by W. H. Mallock)

"The universe, that is, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body; and..."

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:44:16 -0400

““The universe, that is, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body; and hath the dimensions of magnitude, namely length, breadth and depth:[…] consequently every part of the universe is body, and that which is not body is no part of the universe: and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently, nowhere.””

- Thomas Hobbes

"Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which..."

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:54:41 -0400

““Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?””

- Epicurus

"When you grow up you, tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live..."

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:23:32 -0400

““When you grow up you, tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.””

- Steve Jobs

"Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should..."

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:01:44 -0400

“Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our ‘noble’ traits as well?”

- Stephen J. Gould

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Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:24:44 -0400

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 14:28:20 -0400

“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

- I think, therefore the universe exists.

"As a garden grows with rain, No two trees are exactly the same. Each tree grows at its own pace, For..."

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:28:10 -0400

“As a garden grows with rain,
No two trees are exactly the same.
Each tree grows at its own pace,
For being a tree is not a race.”

- Carol Ann Shapiro

idreamcreateandadmire: The hunger table, by Luís Porém Every...

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:37:48 -0400

idreamcreateandadmire:

The hunger table, by Luís Porém

Every year 15 million children die of hunger. 925 million people are malnourished. Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger. These are just a few of the facts that inspired this thoughtful design, the Hunger Table.

The multi-wood, pie chart table top represents these statistics so that those dining on it will be mindful of others starving around the world. It’s a tangible reminder of an easily overlooked problem and a great example of bringing awareness in a clever and impacting way.

Reminiscent of the Google recruitment billboards campaign

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:47:00 -0400

Reminiscent of the Google recruitment billboards campaign

What this makes me think of: Check up on your friends, you never...

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:31:46 -0400

What this makes me think of:

Check up on your friends, you never know what they are going through
Acknowledge your privilege
Thank more
Complain less
It’s easy to be a victim, easier still to oppress
The tyranny of happiness
If you can’t give them joy, give them hope
Flute guy has a wicked hat
It’s okay to be out of place
We see what we want

Inside my head, I can be anything

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:40:00 -0400

Inside my head, I can be anything