December 2011
“Imagination has never imagined
what you give to me.”
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
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Waka, Waka (This Time For Africa) (Freemasons...
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Excerpts from The Way of Sufi
nimblit:
El-Ghazali
Love and Self-Interest
If one loves someone because it gives pleasure, one should not be regarded as loving that person at all. The love is, in reality, through this is not perceived, directed towards the pleasure. The source of the pleasure is the secondary object of attention, and it is perceived only because the perception of the pleasure is not well enough developed...
School is not enough and neither am I..
I am coming to terms that I can’t just do school anymore. I can’t just learn about things -people, history, wisdom traditions, art, the environment, etc.
Papers and tests are going to drive me crazy and I’m going to lose momentum if that’s all my focus is.
As I watch friends of mine pack up and leave their semester abroad here in Israel, I realize why I came for a...
redcaves replied to your post: redcaves replied to your post: I feel…
it’s going good. i’m eating oatmeal raisin cookies and i’m in an relatively okay mood. yourself?
Yum. I have a two month winter break coming up and am trying to figure out what to do during it. This all being to distract me from all my friends that have been leaving to go home now that their semester abroad is over....
redcaves replied to your post: I feel disproportionately unacquainted with the people following this blog..
hello there! i am maggie.
Aw yay! That’s more like it. How’s it going homie? :)
I feel disproportionately unacquainted with the...
Admittedly, it bums me out :(
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“Beauty is that reasoned harmony of all the parts within a body, so that nothing...”
– Leon Battista Alberti
Turkish coffee and fresh oranges make a great...
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Itching to go green and not sure where to start?...
mothernaturenetwork:
10 first steps to lighter living
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NY Times: Art and the Limits of Neuroscience
December 4, 2011, 5:30 PM
By ALVA NOË
What is art? What does art reveal about human nature? The trend these days is to approach such questions in the key of neuroscience.
“Neuroaesthetics” is a term that has been coined to refer to the project of studying art using the methods of neuroscience. It would be fair to say that neuroaesthetics has become a hot field. It is not unusual for leading...
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Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise
When Michelangelo saw the east doors of Florence’s Baptistry of St. John, he commented that they were fit to grace the entrance to paradise. Nicknamed the Gates of Paradise ever since, the gilded bronze doors were recently conserved and returned to their orisinal splendor.
Created between 1425 and 1452, the Gates of Paradise were installed in a place of prominence in Florence’s...
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NY Times: A Victorian Christmas
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: December 24, 2011
AT the end of his life, Charles Dickens did not have great expectations for Christmas.
He had separated from his wife, describing his marriage as “blighted and wasted.” His mistress was not around. He was disappointed that his sons lacked his ambition. His final Christmas, he wrote a colleague, was painful and miserable.
“The Inimitable,” as he had...
