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Doodles while listening to this video on the brain and quantum physics
"So you navigate your life with the help of others who held mirrors up for you. People praised your good qualities and criticised your bad habits, and these perspectives -often surprising to you - helped you to guide your life. " - David Eagleman
feeling very normal about this
Retracing
Abandoned library, roadside somewhere in Oregon.
reading isn't enough I need to swallow the book whole
“but would you know yourself if you weren’t burning”
— Shane McCrae, from “The Pillar Was a Man He Had Been Stretched So Long and Thin,” BOAAT (Vol. 2)
stop trying to find yourself and start creating yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lucian Black, Luciferian Order
I feel like a lot of people don't realize how much power and control they actually have over their lives. Just learning about how we function, our instincts, habbits, and sensory experiences helped me see the world and my existence in such a different way.
All we have is our perception of the world, which more often than not is taken for a fact, when in fact, we can decide if we want to see an event as good or bad or just happening outside of our control.
If I experience a chain of bad things happening to me, If I happen to fall off my bike and break my arm, I won't think I have bad luck, or that my whole life sucks and I shouldn't even try. Rather, I try to separate the events that are out of my control, not good or bad, not personal but a flow of things that is natural and unpredictable. The thing that is within my control is how I choose to react to it. Instinctively I would get upset, curse ect. but taking a step back, looking at the situation separate from my current feelings gives me a much better perspective on things. What we feel isn't always the best way to deal with things, it's just what we have done the longest.
Anyways, I'm not sure where I was going with this except that it's within your control how you see and react to things.
Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
You know. Reading is important. Because I'm like always trying to make every line I write this groundbreaking mindfucking art but like. A book is 90% just saying what happened. "I hugged him around the waist." "The chair was brown and overstuffed." "I woke up alone." Etc etc. Like normal ass lines. I just keep comparing my boring, necessary to set a scene lines, with famous authors' absolute best lines and like.... every line doesn't have to shatter the earth. Sometimes someone just sits in a chair and the lines that wreck you come later, one at a time, here and there. It's alright.
Ask yourself at every moment "is this necessary?"
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Psychoanalysis becomes the training ground of a new kind of priest, the director of bad conscience: bad conscience has made us sick, but that is what will cure us! Freud did not hide what was really at issue with the introduction of the death instinct: it is not a question of any fact whatever, but merely of a principle, a question of principle. The death instinct is pure silence, pure transcendence, not givabie and not given in experience. This very point is remarkable: it is because death, according to Freud, has neither a model nor an experience, that he makes of it a transcendent principle.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia
This little book written in the 2nd century makes my train ride at 6am a bit more bearable and fun
BREAKING NEWS
I just learned about a bird species called Golden Plover. Their chicks have an amazing camouflage: their baby fluff resembles MOSS!
LOOK AT THEM! JUST LOOK AT THEM!
...Oh to be a tiny golden plover lying in the moss safe and sound waiting for your mom to bring you some worms...
I've read a few things recently on how people categorize everything ( by colors, forms, animal kingdoms...) naming something is bringing it in existence , giving it definition and making it different from all the other things. Words are containers of concepts, we see ourselves as being contained within the body, within the space or time. We put invisible borders around things and define them as a way to bring them into existence.
there is no greater joy on this earth than Making Lists, Categorizing, & Sorting
ok well im going to build a good future for myself whether i like it or not
Books and bookmarks
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Edit: I will no longer be coming back to this post but I am leaving it up so others can follow all of you wonderful people! 💜
"So you navigate your life with the help of others who held mirrors up for you. People praised your good qualities and criticised your bad habits, and these perspectives -often surprising to you - helped you to guide your life.
So poorly did you know yourself that you were always surprised at how you looked at the photographs or how you sounded on the voice mail.
In this way, much of your existence took place in the eyes, ears and fingertips of others." - David Eagleman, Sum
“You can discard most of the junk that clutters your mind — things that exist only there — and clear out space for yourself: by comprehending the scale of the world; by contemplating infinite time; by thinking of the speed with which things change… the narrow space between our birth and death, the infinite time before, the equally unbounded time that follows.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (9.32)
Really interesting part of the book I just started reading