Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with …
Quote for Today: Alan Watts
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that “I myself” is a …
Quote for Today: Jorge Luis Borges
I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and somehow implied the stars. Absorbed in those illusory …
Quote for Today: Terence McKenna
Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality and that the other 5% would be delivered in the next 18 months, …
Quote for Today: Jon Kabat-Zinn
There is really no natural limit to the practice of loving kindness in meditation or in one’s life. It is an ongoing, ever-expanding realization of interconnectedness. It is also its …
Shell Metamorphosis: Works of Rowan Mersh
Being connected to modern culture requires a certain amount of screen time. You and I, in order to share these musings, which are surely worthwhile, have to spend time on …
Quote for Today: William Faulkner
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks …
Originals by Synkroniciti: Outgoing Tide
After a few years and two floods, I’m finally painting again. Nothing calms me down better than putting some color on canvas and seeing what crops up. The section of …
Quote for Today: Jess Kidd
My sister said that when the tide was out you could walk all the way to America; the waves pulled back that far. So far that the starfish forgot …
Quote for Today: George R. R. Martin
The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he could feel how fast he was falling, …