happiness?

s: i wish people used the word HAPPY the way they do in Russia.

me: how do they use it in Russia?

s: the word for Happiness is… well, it means something else.

me: can you explain?

s: it implies that you have a piece of something that’s fleeting.
you may catch it, or it may leave you…you may be with it, literally,
or ask it to stay with you, and there are many songs on that,
or it may choose to leave you
you can find it, but it may leave.
and so on.
a more advanced notion of the term would be
it’s in motion
so…
dynamic tranquility is probably best to describe it.

“dynamic tranquility.” that’s lovely.

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it's down time again. my fingers, my arms, my knees, especially my head. feel sorry, still worry. may merry come to everyone's door way. merry xmas

"You know I'm currently making some changes in my life. If you don't hear from me then you know you're one of them."

‘Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be so persistent. It wouldn’t be in every culture. We wouldn’t know about it…

How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In a simplistic way, when you go past a forest and you look at it and you say, ‘that looks just like Cézanne.’ And you realize Cézanne has made you see the reality of the forest in a way that you never could have seen before. He’s made you attentive. Every work of art that you care about makes us attentive.’ Milton Glaser

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Types of People I enjoy-

All with open hearts and open minds towards others and life. There is little fun being around clones of oneself.

} Eric deWayne valentine

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing,
Love tells me I am everything,
Somewhere in between
my life flows.” - Shinzen Young

i don't know if
'i miss you' means something

sab kuch aacha hai

What happens between us
has happened for centuries
we know it from literature

still it happens

there are books that describe all this
and yet they are useless

You walk into the woods behind a house
there in that country
you find a temple
built eighteen hundred years ago
you enter without knowing
what it is you enter

so it is with us

no one knows what may happen
though the books tell everything

burn the texts said Artaud

— Adrienne Rich

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‘We are too unobservant or too self-centred to fathom one another. Anyone who has seen masks at a ball, dancing amicably together, and holding hands without recognizing one another, only to part a moment later, and neither to meet again nor miss one another, can form a conception of the world at large.’

— Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues, ‘Reflections and Maxims’

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will you open your chest wide open for me?

the devil lived
but never loved
which is lonely
L one only
as are all
self I-s-O-lations

R.Buckminster Fuller

“It is a woman who hides. She believes that she can hide, which is foolishness; nobody can hide anything. And secondly, nobody would present herself naked the way she does. You have to be high to do this. This woman is obviously nice-looking, but she does not realize the effect she has on us. She does not know that she is half naked, and she does not know that she is trying to hide. That is to say, she is totally self-defeating, because she shows herself at the very moment that she thinks she is hiding.” -Louise Bourgeois

E.D.: Is there a philosophy behind your work?

J.T.: I think philosophy is not the right word. If anything, there is more discipline than philosophy behind my work. Philosophy is a rational study and my work is not always so rational. But it is in search of some kind of truth, albeit unattainable. There is certainly a lot of thoughts behind my work. But there is no conclusion, it asks more questions than it answers. Everything That Happens is my most rational work to date, where the ideas were carried out in a somewhat logical way, but I tried to also leave the work open, leaving room for interpretation.

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they say: There is a recipe for a good life:
Do what your heart calls you to do, and do it with all your heart. Then follow your inspiration and your joy in pursuing that calling, and try not to be shy!

i have an idea of who i wish i were, and that obscures my understanding of who i actually am. sometimes i pretend even to

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In jealousy there is more self-love than love-François de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

some pursue happiness others create it

i hate just looking, i always try to grab-D.H. Mondfleur

yesterday i did one thing that made myself feel happy. i was at the gym shaking my butts in a room packed of peeps. a great fun in a long time!

Leonard: What do you think it will take to make a real, substantive change?

Gehry: Creativity and a will to do it. And a lot of it is common sense.

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"Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own. Just stop running away by running after. Stand still, be quiet."

"A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part."

"When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected."

"The Real Does Not Die, The Unreal Never Lived"

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own. Just stop running away by running after. Stand still, be quiet."

"A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In... (read more)

Even “lovers,” he advises, “should guard their strangeness” (CW3: 82) –R. W. Emerson
but to live happy i must be contented with obscurity
-girl_onthe_les

"My Body Is A Cage"

My body is a cage that keeps me
From dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key

My body is a cage that keeps me
From dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key

I'm standing on a stage
Of fear and self-doubt
It's a hollow play
But they'll clap anyway

My body is a cage that keeps me
From dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key

You're standing next to me
My mind holds the key

I'm living in an age
That calls darkness light
Though my language is dead
Still the shapes fill my head

I'm living in an age
Whose name I don't know
Though the fear keeps me moving
Still my heart beats so slow

My body is a cage that keeps me
From dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key

You're standing next to me
My mind holds the key
My body is a

My body is a cage
We take what we're given
Just because you've forgotten
That don't mean you're forgiven

I'm living in an age
That screams my name at night
But when I get to the doorway
There's no one in sight

My body is a cage that keeps me
From dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key

You're standing next to me
My mind holds the key

Set my spirit free
Set my spirit free
Set my body free
-The Arcade Fire

i am thinking of you
you are walking in your street, its wintertime, you've turned up your foxfur collar, you are smiling and remote {species of spaces/georges perec}

Perec - Practical Exercises

Observe the street, from time to time, with some concern for system perhaps.
Apply yourself. Take your Time.
Note down the place: the terrace of a cafe near the junction of the Rue de Bac and the Boulevard Saint Germain
the time: seven o' clock in the evening
the date: 15 May 1973
the weather: set fair
Note down what you can see. Anything worthy of note going on. Do you know how to see what's worthy of note? Is there anything that strikes you?
Nothing strikes you. You don't know how to see.

You must set about it more slowly, almost stupidly. Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless.

Georges Perec, Species of Spaces, 1997:50

how do we know Jesus was Jewish?
.he was thirty, unmarried, and still living with his mother
.he went into his father's business
.he thought his mother was a virgin
.and his mother though the was God
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-continued to live-that is, repeat a habit formed to get necessaries

-cautiously unfolds, emerges what i am -best society 

days-

what are days for?

days are where we live.

they come, they wake us

time and time over.

they are to be happy in:

where can we live but days?

ah, solving that question

brings the priest and the doctor

in their long coats

running over the fields "

to put one brick upon another,

add a third and then a fourth,

leaves no time to wonder whether

what you do has any worth.

but to sit with bricks around you

while the winds of heaven bawl

weighing what you should or can do

leaves no doubt of it at all

{Pphilip}

born yesterday-

tightly folded bud, 

i have wished you something

none of the usual stuff

about being beautiful 

or running off a spring

of innocence and love

they will all wish you that

and should it prove possible 

well you are a lucky girl. 

but if it shouldn't, then

'may you be ordinary; 

have like other women, 

an average of talents:

not ugly, not good looking

nothing uncustomary 

to pull you off your balance,

that, unworkable itself,

stops all the rest from working.

in fact, may you be dull

if that is what a skilled, 

vigilant, flexible,

unemphasised, enthralled

catching of happiness is called.

{20 January 1954 TLD}

The world is waiting to be known; Earth, what it has in it!

The past is in it;

All words, feelings, movements, words, bodies, clothes, girls,

trees, stones, things of beauty, books, desires are in it;

and all are to be known;

Afternoons have to do with the whole world;

And the beauty of mind, feeling knowingly the world!

{Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana}

“[The] scaling of undefined space to human proportions may be achieved by a line drawn on a road, a floor, a wall, a covering surface, a combination of vertical and horizontal planes, curved or flat, transparent or massive. It is never a partitioning or closing off, but always a defining element of what is here and there, above and below, between and around (Woodworks)." {Gerrit Rietveld}
"All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves (Eli Siegel)."

"I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies."
- Le Corbusier
"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful."
-John Maeda

what music will you play for me when we meet?

hate waking up in the middle of night

the wall at night is icy cold
don't blow the candles out just yet
will you

so, we are not living in a walki talki distance. it would be fun if the value is opposite of false. i can then walki talki you w/o worrying not having too much to say at time. let be a completed sentence or not or just a word or even a number or a laugh or a heavy breath or and many or's'

Ode To My Toaster

Ode to my toaster, so shiny and clean
You’re the butterknife's foe, you're the bread's trampoline
You're the lightest, the darkest, the coolest and proud
You’re the jack-in-the-box of the countertop crowd.

In the old days you had a side entrance instead
You were far more ornate as a true thoroughbred
But now you're a box with a push-button trick
You're a bit more convenient, but a little too slick.

And if that weren't sufficient to cause you some shame,
There's your bullying arch-rival muscling in on your game
They say big toaster-ovens are "double the tool"
They can brown up a bagel and reheat your gruel.

But don't be discouraged, I still think you're swell
You do do one thing, but you do that thing well
And though fancy new gizmos might stir up a yen, remember
Your name still pops up, every now and again.
{Allan Chochinov}

The eyes of strangers are cold as snowdrops, downcast, folded and seldom visited. And stranger's acts cry but vaguely drift across our attention's smoke sieged afternoons and to live there among strangers,
calls for teashop behaviors:
setting down the cup, leaving the right tip.
Kepping the soul unjostled,
the pocket unpicked,
the fancies lurid,
and the treasure buried
{Strangers-Philip Larkin 20 May 1950}

i see red -uh huh her

you and i -Park Bom

I don't know much about Art, but I know what I like -Gelett Burgess With a man, a lie is a last resort; with women, it's First Aid -Frank Burgess In Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference; when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honour a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much -Anthony Burgess- Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

whenever you fall, pick up something -Oswald Theodore Avery
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated -Paulette Bates Alden If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door-Milton Berle-Laughter is an instant vacation.

one chair is enough
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男聲女聲配
男聲女聲配

no dreaming no story

sing and i will hear you
no matter where you are
a song to light the darkest night
and guide me from afar
and i will never be afraid
now i know you are somewhere
you are everywhere to me
the warming of the sun
upon the earth beneath my feet
and when the rain falls down
you tell the story
and i wll hear you
always near you
by the boab tree {australia.angela little}