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)