Good Ideas
22 Jan
If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you're too latePaul Hawken
21 Jan
If something that seems like work to other people doesn't seem like work to you, that's something you're well suited for.Paul Graham
20 Jan
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.W.E.B. Du Bois
[via @floraadamian]
20 Jan
A lack of confidence is at heart a misunderstanding of the way the world works. It’s an internalized feudalism, which imagines that only certain people — but not oneself — have the right, preordained, to get certain things.Unknown
20 Jan
Culture replaces authentic feeling with words. As an example of this, imagine an infant lying in its cradle, and the window is open, and into the room comes something, marvelous, mysterious, glittering, shedding light of many colors, movement, sound, a transformative hierophany of integrated perception and the child is enthralled and then the mother comes into the room and she says to the child, "that's a bird, baby, that's a bird," instantly the complex wave of the angel peacock iridescent transformative mystery is collapsed, into the word. All mystery is gone, the child learns this is a bird, this is a bird, and by the time we're five or six years old all the mystery of reality has been carefully tiled over with words. This is a bird, this is a house, this is the sky, and we seal ourselves in within a linguistic shell of disempowered perception. What the psychedelics do is they burst apart this cultural envelope of confinement and return us to the legacy and birthright of the organism.Terence McKenna
[via @pieratt]
19 Jan
We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.Martin Luther King, Jr.
13 Jan
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.Les Brown
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