Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world, as well as its capacity for rational thought. If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.
- Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson - 'Atari and India' Steve Jobs, 2011
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19.2.12
13.3.11
aestheticizing tragedy
it's not like we can help it -
if it can't be beautiful too it's just a disaster. what's the point?
in the end, all catastrophe is possibility anyway
- it's just perspective.
if it can't be beautiful too it's just a disaster. what's the point?
in the end, all catastrophe is possibility anyway
- it's just perspective.
24.11.10
It must be abstract It must change It must give pleasure
the real unreal: the unnameable: the howl: the ineffable: the iridescent: the void: the origin of change: the muddy centre before we breathed: the myth before the myth: the first idea in violet space: a passion felt, not understood: the anonymous colour of the universe: the savage plainness: the silence: the vulgate: the gibberish: the hermit in poet’s metaphors: the to and fro both at once: the alpha omega: the round and round like wine at a table: dark things without a double: the exactest point at which the thing is itself: the movable, the moment: the permanent impermanent: the indifferent eye: the big X: the dominant blank, the unapproachable: the cold and earliness and bright origin: the bodiless half: the clearing for outpouring: the single sleep: the intricate evasions: the senseless element: the coming on and coming forth: the final form: the clearness: the traversing shade: the rugged and luminous, chants in the dark: the and yet, and yet, and yet: the possible, possible, possible…
Yves Klein, Wallace Stevens
9.2.10
know everything
Nor do I hold with those who regard it as a presumption if a man
of low and humble condition dare to discuss and settle the
concerns of princes; because, just as those who draw landscapes
place themselves below in the plain to contemplate the nature of
the mountains and of lofty places, and in order to contemplate the
plains place themselves upon high mountains, even so to understand
the nature of the people it needs to be a prince, and to
understand that of princes it needs to be of the people.
Nicolo Machiavelli - Dedication of The Prince to Lorenzo Di Piero De' Medici
of low and humble condition dare to discuss and settle the
concerns of princes; because, just as those who draw landscapes
place themselves below in the plain to contemplate the nature of
the mountains and of lofty places, and in order to contemplate the
plains place themselves upon high mountains, even so to understand
the nature of the people it needs to be a prince, and to
understand that of princes it needs to be of the people.
Nicolo Machiavelli - Dedication of The Prince to Lorenzo Di Piero De' Medici
14.1.10
30.11.09
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