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novitiate2017:

Some of your problems will inevitably stem from your refusal to view other human beings with the same complexity and nuance you see in yourself

"[Susan Weinschenk] suggests that almost three-quarters of us experience feelings that we don’t belong, that it’s a mistake for us to be where we are, and that everyone else is going to work this out any moment now. Women, apparently, are more likely to experience a fear of imposterism. She also suggests that consequences include obsessing “about mistakes, negative feedback and failure”. These also happen to be some of the ingredients of what we refer to as negative perfectionism – perfectionism motivated by the need to live up to the expectations of others. Perfectionism is part of a toxic triad with procrastination and impostor syndrome."

“What Science Says About Why Public Speaking is Scary”, Marc Wilson

(Source: noted.co.nz)

"orphic"

(ˈɔr fɪk), adjective | Categorized as something deeply mysterious, orphic encompasses anything, which is enchanting, subliminal and beyond human comprehension. (via natural-magics)

(Source: wordsnquotes.com)

The Poetry of Thought

George Steiner

“A reflection on the millennia-old struggle to express original ideas through language. What are thoughts? Who has them? Who first had them? How are thoughts thought? Is thinking thoughts different from expressing them? How are thoughts expressed? What happens to them when they are? Are thoughts and feelings tied together?”

"I used to be a writer.
I feel like it was just a season of my life.
I can’t write anything now.
I sit and stare at a paper and pen like it’s foreign to me.
I write in my head but I can’t get it on down.
Here, I tried:

you
you
you"

please don’t say you love me//d.a.h (via whisperingbones)

aseaofquotes:

Yehuda Amichai, “You Mustn’t Show Weakness”

(Source: aseaofquotes)

"A life is nothing but the story of this life, and a quest of narration. Understanding oneself comes down to being capable of telling stories about oneself that are both intelligible and acceptable."

Paul Ricoeur, La souffrance n’est pas la douleur (via atelier-populaire)

(Source: human-voices)

a-weltanschauung:

“A word, once dissected, no longer signifies anything, is nothing. Like a body that, after the autopsy, is less than a corpse.”
— Emil Cioran, Anathemas and Admirations

ffree-parking:

Xu Bing — Tian Shu (Book from the Sky), 1987-1991
Tian Shu is comprised of a display of books spread in a large rectangle across the ground, above which voluptuous scrolls unroll in long, pregnant arcs. The books—four hundred of them—are handmade with reverential adherence to the standards of traditional Ming dynasty fonts, bookbinding, typesetting and stringing techniques.
To make them, Xu painstakingly carved Chinese characters into square woodblocks, in just the way his ancient printing predecessors would have done, had them typeset and printed, and the printed pages mounted and bound into books and scrolls.
Yet, there’s the astonishing, Borgesian catch: out of the three or four thousand Chinese characters used in these volumes and scrolls, not a single one of them is a real Chinese character. They are made up of recognizable radicals and typical atomic components of Chinese characters, but Xu laboured to ensure that while they all retain the unmistakable look of Chinese script, they are all, so to speak, nonsense. They do not exist in any dictionary, and do not mean anything. Chinese speakers and non-Chinese speakers alike approach the books with the same sense of wonder at their beauty, and the same sense of incomprehension at their content. It’s a piece of art whose meaning is to be found in its meaninglessness. (via)

(Source: free-parking-blog)

"Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding."

Bill Bullard (via universeobserver)

(Source: psych-facts)

Susan Hannon: You Get Me Closer To God, no. 6
American bible, mixed media

(Source: myampgoesto11)

When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.

When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.

When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no non-being can hold.

Wisława Szymborska-Włodek, The Three Oddest Words
Translated by S. Baranczak and C. Cavanagh (x)

metaphorformetaphor:

In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

— Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl. NYRB Classics, 2008

"There are 7 billion 47 million people on the planet
And I have the audacity to think I matter"

Watsky (via ace)

showslow:

The Tiniest Cosmos
Cosmology of Life is Indonesian artist Toni Kanwa’s collection of 1000 intricately carved, needle-sized ritualistic figures displayed on a lit table at the 2013 Singapore Biennale.
Magnifying glasses allow less-than-hawk-eyed viewers to observe the miniscule figures – each of which has its own teeny-tiny energy and character.
These miniature, talisman-like sculptures were intuitively carved and shaped by Kanwa to express his worldview of nature, spirituality, and the macro and micro cosmos. His creative process follows a special ritual, informed by his past investigations of sacred knowledge and practices in Indonesia, where he dialogues with the material and medium used before beginning to sculpt.