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“Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you”
― Marcus Aurelius "Meditations" translated by Gregory Hays

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“I now walk into the wild.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in our quiet life.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“It cannot be effaced from a man's soul what his ancestors have preferably and most constantly done: whether they were perhaps diligent economizers attached to a desk and a cash-box, modest and citizen-like in their desires, modest also in their virtues; or whether they were accustomed to commanding from morning till night, fond of rude pleasures and probably of still ruder duties and responsibilities; or whether, finally, at one time or another, they have sacrificed old privileges of birth and possession, in order to live wholly for their faith—for their "God,"—as men of an inexorable and sensitive conscience, which blushes at every compromise. It is quite impossible for a man NOT to have the qualities and predilections of his parents and ancestors in his constitution, whatever appearances may suggest to the contrary. This is the problem of race. Granted that one knows something of the parents, it is admissible to draw a conclusion about the child: any kind of offensive incontinence, any kind of sordid envy, or of clumsy self-vaunting—the three things which together have constituted the genuine plebeian type in all times—such must pass over to the child, as surely as bad blood; and with the help of the best education and culture one will only succeed in DECEIVING with regard to such heredity.—And what else does education and culture try to do nowadays! In our very democratic, or rather, very plebeian age, "education" and "culture" MUST be essentially the art of deceiving—deceiving with regard to origin, with regard to the inherited plebeianism in body and soul. An educator who nowadays preached truthfulness above everything else, and called out constantly to his pupils: "Be true! Be natural! Show yourselves as you are!"—even such a virtuous and sincere ass would learn in a short time to have recourse to the FURCA of Horace, NATURAM EXPELLERE: with what results? "Plebeianism" USQUE RECURRET.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“Do you know we are being led to
Slaughters by placid admirals

& that fat slow generals are getting
Obscene on young blood

Do you know we are ruled by t.v.
”
― Jim Morrison, An American Prayer

“The Ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls.”

Top soul (Vicarious), and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren the Secret name. This corresponds to my Director. He directs the film of your life from conception to death. The Secret Name is the title of your film. When you die, that's where Ren came in.

Second soul (Jambi), and second one off the sinking ship, is Sekem: Energy, Power. LIGHT. The Director gives the orders, Sekem presses the right buttons.

Number three (Wings/Days) is Khu, the Guardian Angel. He, she or it is third man out...depicted as flying away across a full moon, a bird with luminous wings and head of light. The sort of thing you might see on a screen in an Indian restaurant in Panama. The Khu is responsible for the subject and can be injured in his defense - but not permanently, since the first three souls are eternal. They go back to Heaven for another vessel. The four remaining souls must take their chances with the subject in the land of the dead.

Number four (The Pot) is Ba, the Heart, often treacherous. This is a hawk's body with your face on it, shrunk down to the size of a fist. Many a hero has been brought down, like Samson, by a perfidious Ba.

Number five (L.C., Lost Keys, Rosetta Stoned) is Ka, the double, most closely associated with the subject. The Ka, which usually reaches adolescence at the time of bodily death, is the only reliable guide through the Land of the Dead to the Western Lands.

Number six (Instension) is Khaibit, the Shadow, Memory, your whole past conditioning from this and other lives.

Number seven (Right in Two) is Sekhu, the Remains”
― William S. Burroughs, The Western Lands

“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.”
― William S. Burroughs

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.”
― William S. Burroughs, Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.”
― François Truffaut

“There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.”
― Oscar Levant

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Rumi: “Dancing is not rising to your feet painlessly like a whirl of dust blown about by the wind. Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul.”
― Gabrielle Roth, Connections: The Threads of Intuitive Wisdom

“Think of one of your most memorable sexual experiences. Although often sex gets stuck in one rhythm, sometimes we ride the whole wave. Sensuous and slow, gentle and tender your energies flow together. As it heats up, your passion ignites into a pulsing staccato beat. As you lose control, moving beyond all thinking and fears, you surrender to the orgasmic rhythm of chaos. And then there’s the luscious lingering of the altered lyrical state before we settle into the afterglow, the bliss of stillness.”
― Gabrielle Roth, Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement

“ოდითგანვე ასე მოგვდგამს ქართველებს, მუდამ ჩვენს სიმცირეს მივსტიროდით, რადგან მტერი აურაცხელი გვყავდა მუდამ, მაგრამ დიდკაცი თუ გამოგვერია, მას ისე დავკორტნით, როგორც დაკოდილ ძერას ყვავები.”
― Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა

“ხელოვნებაა თავად უკვდავება. მხოლოდ ოსტატს ვერ ეწევა სიკვდილი... ათასეული წლები წალეკავენ ირგვლივ ყოველივეს. მხოლოდ სვეტიცხოველი დარჩება, როგორც ღმერთთან და სიკვდილთან მებრძოლი იაკობი.”
― Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა

“მართლაც და სხვა რა ევალება ოსტატს, თუ არ წამიერის მარადჟამულად ქცევა? სხვა რა ევალება ამ ქვეყნად ოსტატს, თუ არ ჭიდილი წარმავლობის ნისლთან?”
― Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა

“როცა ხალხს ამდენი მოღალატე შინა ჰყავს, მაკედონელიც ვერ გაამარჯვებინებს მას, პიპა.”
― Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, ტომი 5. დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა

“ყველაფერზე უფრო ძვირფასი მხატვრისათვის მაინც იგია, რაც არც მელქისედეკ კათალიკოსს შეუკვეთია და არც მეფე გიორგის, ის, რასაც მოცალეობის ჟამს დახატავს იგი თამაშით.
ეგეც იცოდე: მაინც მოცალეობა და ფანტაზიაა შემოქმედების მკვიდრი მშობელი”
― Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“every being loves ther own self more than anything else, for this is only natural. We love our children and our wealth only because we think of them as parts of ourselves, as belonging to us. Thus men never love their children, the homes or their gold as much as they do their own bodies, their selves. For these are never entirely identified with the self, but only perceived as belonging to the self.”
― Ramesh Menon, Bhagavata Purana

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“Exuberance is beauty.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell