Some shape of beauty

I love the clouds. Do you?

2011-05-29T10:53:00.000+03:00

http://www.clouds365.com

Never Let Me Go (movie review)

2011-05-21T22:30:00.003+03:00

A heart-rending, absolutely and painfully harrowing tale of a patiently-waiting, impossible love that is undermined by fate the very moment it appears to overcome obstacles and reach fruition. The acting is absolutely superb; one cannot help but stand in awe with the performance of Carey Mulligan (Kathy), who expresses profound love in such a sublimely understated way, that is only feasible by a

Cancer Ward (Solzhenitsyn)

2011-04-28T00:17:00.002+03:00

I read this book when I was 18 or so. It is one of these books so imbued with a profound human feeling, so harrowing, that it makes you wonder why on earth you had been reading these other books all along and whether there is any point in continuing to do so. Indeed, that resonates with this comment by Solzhenitsyn: Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not

To Fall in Love or to Rise in Love? (Osho)

2011-01-31T21:07:00.001+02:00

To fall in love is so easy. Why is it so difficult to fall out of love? So many discussions, tears, fights, fears…. I don’t want to hurt the person I’ve been with, because it’s not that there is no feeling. I’m so confused. And the love for you is a different feeling altogether. Can you say something? Is there something to say? All is finished! Falling is always easy. You can fall in any ditch.

Only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things

2011-01-31T14:11:00.002+02:00

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T. S. Eliot

Love flows towards happiness (Osho)

2010-09-16T10:06:00.001+03:00

If you are happy, love will be flowing towards you... there is no need to ask. It is one of the basic laws. Just as water flows downwards, and fire flows upwards, love flows towards happiness... happinesswards. And this is the problem: people are miserable and love cannot flow towards them, so they make that a cause for their misery and they say we are bound to be miserable because love is not

Handbook to Higher Consciousness (Ken Keyes Jr.)

2010-09-04T12:29:00.001+03:00

Millions of years ago when our animal ancestors had to survive in the jungle, it was necessary to have an instantly effective fight or flight mechanism. When a tiger was about to spring, an automatic emotional response was a life saver. A nervous shock was needed to squirt adrenalin into the blood so that muscles became jet powered. Emotional alarms were needed to command full attention. When a

The woman is the only hope for humanity to survive (Osho)

2010-07-21T08:35:00.002+03:00

The heart is still primitive. And it is good that the universities have not yet found a way to teach the heart and make it civilized. That is the only hope for humanity to survive. The woman is the only hope for humanity to survive. Up to now, man has been dominant, and man has been dominant for a very strange reason. The reason is that deep down man feels inferior. Out of inferiority, just to

Fear-oriented and love-oriented living

2010-07-18T20:39:00.002+03:00

So I say to you that there are two types of living. One: fear-oriented; one: love-oriented. Fear-oriented living can never lead you into deep relationship. You remain afraid, and the other cannot be allowed, cannot be allowed to penetrate you to your very core. To an extent you allow the other and then the wall comes and everything stops. The love-oriented person is the religious person. The

The spirit molecule (DMT / dimethyltryptamine)

2010-07-11T13:09:00.000+03:00

Dimethyltryptamine or N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a naturally-occurring tryptamine and psychedelic drug, found not only in many plants, but also in trace amounts in the human body where its natural function is undetermined. Structurally, it is analogous to the neurotransmitter serotonin (5-HT) and other psychedelic tryptamines such as 5-MeO-DMT, bufotenin (5-OH-DMT), and psilocin (4-HO-DMT)

I was made to love magic (Nick Drake, video and lyrics)

2010-07-11T12:42:00.001+03:00

I was born to love no one No one to love me Only the wind in the long green grass The frost in a broken tree. I was made to love magic All its wonder to know But you all lost that magic Many many years ago. I was born to use my eyes Dream with the sun and the skies To float away in a lifelong song In the mist where melody flies. I was made to love magic... I was born to sail away Into a

Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Bonnie Tyler)

2010-07-11T12:35:00.000+03:00

Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Bonnie Tyler) Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you're never coming around Turnaround, Every now and then I get a little bit tired of listening to the sound of my tears Turnaround, Every now and then I get a little bit nervous that the best of all the years have gone by Turnaround, Every now and then I get a little bit terrified and

U2/Brian Eno, Your Blue Room (lyrics / video)

2010-07-02T14:45:00.001+03:00

It's time to go again To your blue room Got some questions to ask of you In your blue room The air is clean Your skin is clear I've had enough fun hanging 'round here It's a different kind of conversation Your blue room You saw me coming love In outside You saw me coming Somewhere I can hide And time is a string of pearls... your blue room (You see that?) See the future just hanging there.

Dead Can Dance - Circumradiant Dawn

2010-04-07T00:26:00.002+03:00

Riverman (Nick Drake) lyrics video

2010-03-15T02:29:00.000+02:00

Betty came by on her way Said she had a word to say About things today And fallen leaves. Said she hadn't heard the news Hadn't had the time to choose A way to lose But she believes. Gonna see the river man Gonna tell him all I can About the plan For lilac time. If he tells me all he knows 'bout the way his river flows And all night shows In summertime. Betty said she prayed today For the

Oh I'm a psychiatrist

2009-12-27T15:00:00.005+02:00

"What do you do for a living?" I asked. His hand shook so badly, as he lit another cigarette, that he knocked over the whisky bottle at his elbow. "Oh I'm a psychiatrist," he said. "I help people who have problems." Sangharakshita, Peace is a fire

Unless you love yourself...

2009-12-27T15:00:00.003+02:00

Unless you are a healthy, growing individual – unless, as it were, you love yourself – you can't love others. Sangharakshita, Peace is a fire

One is as though nothing is a miracle

2009-12-27T14:59:00.002+02:00

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein

Philip Glass - Façades

2009-12-23T11:18:00.000+02:00

Philip Glass - Façades

Top Ten Things Jim Carrey Will Always Say Yes To

2009-12-21T18:27:00.002+02:00

Top Ten Things Jim Carrey Will Always Say Yes To

It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men

2009-12-21T15:13:00.002+02:00

Nicht die Stärke, sondern die Dauer der hohen Empfindung macht die hohen Menschen. It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men. Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter IV: Apophthegms and Interludes, 72 Jenseits von Gut und Böse, Sprüche und Zwischenspiele

Ό,τι έκανα, δεν το έκανα εγώ

2009-12-20T15:55:00.000+02:00

Ό,τι έκανα, δεν το έκανα εγώ. Το έκαναν οι άλλοι, για τους οποίους δεν ευθύνομαι. Ομως, βαρύνομαι. Σχεδόν αποκλειστικά. Σταύρος Σταυρόπουλος http://greekpoems.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/στη-χώρα-των-θανάτων-σταύρος-stavropoulos/

Η ποίηση συμβαίνει όταν ένα ρήμα, ένα ουσιαστικό κι ένα επίθετο συναντιούνται για πρώτη φορά

2009-12-20T15:54:00.002+02:00

Οι Ινδιάνοι λένε ότι η ποίηση συμβαίνει όταν ένα ρήμα, ένα ουσιαστικό κι ένα επίθετο συναντιούνται για πρώτη φορά. Η ερώτηση δεν είναι αν σου αρέσει, αλλά αν την αντέχεις. Η συντριβή είναι δεδομένη. Σταύρος Σταυρόπουλος http://greekpoems.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/στη-χώρα-των-θανάτων-σταύρος-stavropoulos/

El que se tenga por grande (flamenco, scene from "The Limits of Control", review)

2009-12-15T15:25:00.002+02:00

Perhaps the song below (second video from the actual movie) is the only thing of interest in the movie The Limits of Control. Ok, some quotes from the moronic scenario are good too (one, aptly characterized the entire movie: "Sometimes I like it in films when people just sit there, not saying anything."). I had not felt sleepy so early in the night for ages; indeed, I would give this movie five

We are too accustomed to the absurdity of existence

2009-11-27T13:52:00.000+02:00

We are too accustomed to the absurdity of existence. The loss of a universe is not worth taking seriously. Yukio Mishima, The Decay of the Angel (天人五衰 - Tennin Gosui)