oh-beauty-in-words

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Orisha Lifestyle

(https://youtu.be/F59LUcCVdWg)

“power for someone who is spiritually adept is not the same as power for someone who is physically adept.”

“...at this point, we’re overemphasizing ‘empowerment’ without really giving them knowledge or awareness or any kind of control.” This, however, is really about empowerment.

#link #power #spirit #yoruba #orisha

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We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things even before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality in America: Man's desires must overshadow his needs.

Paul Mazur, leading Wall Street banker 1927

#mass marketing #consumerism #the century of the self #Paul Mazur #propoganda

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What Bernays had created was the idea that if a woman smoked it made her more powerful and independent, an idea that still persists today. It made him realize that it was possible to persuade people to behave irrationally if you linked products to their emotional desires and feelings.

The idea that smoking actually made women freer was completely irrational, but it made them feel more independent. It meant that irrelevant objects could become powerful emotional symbols of how you wanted to be seen by others.

"The Century of the Self" - 2002 Documentary

#quote #the century of the Self #propoganda #bernays #Edward bernays #Sigmund Freud #marketing #mass marketing #consumerism

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

― Rainer Maria Rilka

Artist: Lucian Stanculescu

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humans will seek power in more subversive ways f they fail to acquire it by more conventional means

I don’t know. maybe wittgenstein? (via classic-misunderstanding)

#humans

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There can be no such thing as bad science. Any other view would be a plea for ignorance, and there can be no possible quarrel with science that ignorance can improve.

George Wald | Therefore Choose Life; One With the Universe

#George Wald #therefore choose life #science #philosophy of science #ethics and science #philosophy #ignorance

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When I was a young student I used to be told that a scientist always asks how, but never why. I have come to think that a degraded view of the scientist. To be sure we ask how again and again, but if we have had the good fortune to be answered, there comes a time to ask why.

George Wald

#science #scientist #questions #George Wald #how #why

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I’m mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can’t even bring themselves to talk.

Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar (via heresay)

#alice walker

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If you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it.

Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy (via quotespile)

#alice walker

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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#ursula le guin #ursula k le guin #writer #when action grows unprofitable #the left hand of darkness #sleep #profitable #motivation

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A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

#love #ursula le guin #the left hand of darkness

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A hallmark of the noble ones is that they do not flow along thoughtlessly with the stream of life, but endeavor to comprehend existence from within, as honestly and thoroughly as possible. For us, too, it is necessary to reflect upon the nature of our life. We must attempt to fathom the deep significance of an existence bounded on one side by birth and on the other by death...

Bhikkhu Bodi | "The Nobility of the Truth", 1998

#buddhism #the nobility of the truth #the nobility of truth #4 noble truths #existence from within

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Auparavant je méconnais mon compagnon Si nous n'avions la même croyance. À présent, mon cœur est capable de toute image Il est prairie pour les Gazelles, cloître pour les moines Temple pour les idoles, Kaâba pour les pèlerins Tables de la Thora et livre saint du Coran L'Amour seul est ma religion... Partout où se dirige ses montures L'Amour est ma religion et ma foi

Amina Alaoui | Ode D'Ibn El Arabi (traduction francais) {rough English translation: Previously I would ignore my companion If we did not have the same belief. Now, my heart is capable of any image It is meadow for the Gazelles, cloister for the monks Temple for idols, Kaâba for pilgrims Tables of the Torah and holy book of the Koran Love alone is my religion ... Wherever his horses go Love is my religion and my faith }

#love is my religion #amina alaoui #ode d'ibn el arabi #l'amour est ma religion

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I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

#art #artist

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love what you have and you'll have more love

regina spektor - firewood || what we saw from the cheap seats

#firewood #regina spektor firewood #what we saw from the cheap seats #lyrics

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I'm just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh, Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood. Understood?

Regina Spektor - Oh Marchello

#oh marchello #regina spektor #what we saw from the cheap seats #regina spektor oh marchello #lyrics

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I am Down the road and up the hill I wait for you still Wires ‘round my fingers Potentially lovely Perpetually human Suspended and open

Regina Spektor, Open (via words-and-coffee)

#regina spektor #open #lyrics