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"Within the sky-like empty mind, habitual tendencies and disturbing emotions are just like clouds and mist. When they appear, they appear within the expanse of empty mind. When they remain, they remain within the expanse of empty mind. And when they dissolve, they dissolve in that same expanse of empty mind.
Padmasambhava, Treasures from Juniper Ridge
Tags: awakening, buddhism, enlightenment, padmasambhava" — Nov 02, 2025 08:13AM
"Within the sky-like empty mind, habitual tendencies and disturbing emotions are just like clouds and mist. When they appear, they appear within the expanse of empty mind. When they remain, they remain within the expanse of empty mind. And when they dissolve, they dissolve in that same expanse of empty mind.
Padmasambhava, Treasures from Juniper Ridge
Tags: awakening, buddhism, enlightenment, padmasambhava" — Nov 02, 2025 08:13AM
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"“It means, in my humble opinion, we got to cubism hundreds of years before Braque or Picasso or any European. That maybe we’ve been training for a long time in sitting in the complicated multiplicities of ourselves, of our natures. At least for a time. No monolithically good Siegfried hero versus monolithically bad dragon.”
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Martyr!: A novel
Kaveh Akbar
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"“It means, in my humble opinion, we got to cubism hundreds of years before Braque or Picasso or any European. That maybe we’ve been training for a long time in sitting in the complicated multiplicities of ourselves, of our natures. At least for a time. No monolithically good Siegfried hero versus monolithically bad dragon.”
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Martyr!: A novel
Kaveh Akbar
This material may be protected by copyright." — Nov 13, 2025 05:25AM
Sweetbitter
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Some of it was a draw: the money, the sense of safety that came from having a place to wait. What I didn’t see was that the time had severe brackets around it. Within those brackets nothing else existed.
“There’s nothing to *believe*.
Only when I quit believing in myself
did I come into this beauty.”
― The Essential Rumi
Only when I quit believing in myself
did I come into this beauty.”
― The Essential Rumi
“Aristotle rejected Plato’s idea of art as a distorting mirror of reality. Instead he analysed art in terms of its ability to engender emotion – especially emotions of pleasure and pain.”
― Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide
― Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide
“five virtues are goodness, propriety, ritual, knowledge, and sagacity.”
― Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi: Selected Passages from the Chinese Philosophers in The Path
― Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi: Selected Passages from the Chinese Philosophers in The Path
“On account of their dangerous influence, Plato in The Republic (c. 375 BC) banned artists and poets from his ideal state.”
― Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide
― Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide
“Poets were believed to have access to the muses, the daughters of memory who possessed historical knowledge and insight into the gods’ motives.”
― Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide
― Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide
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