"There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don’t try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is— particularly the artist— particularly myself!"
— Herman Hesse (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
(via paganbuddha)
Emodin, a type of resin, melted with urea at 50x magnification. 9th place in the 1994 Nikon Small World competition.
More Rocks And Minerals by Warren Krupsaw
- Amethyst Stalactite Cross Section on Coral
- Mesolite (India)
- Quartz Stalactite cross section
- Iris Agate on Coral
- Malachite (scape)
- Meteorite Slice
(via that-digital-spit)
TAKING YOUR SEAT IN A WAY THAT EMBODIES DIGNITY IS A RADICAL ACT OF LOVE.
(via lajoiedespetiteschoses)
Henry Horenstein. African Grey Parrot. Psittacua erithacus.
Book : Animalia.
(via largerloves)
(via largerloves)
"The History of Religions is destined to play an important role in contemporary cultural life. This is not only because an understanding of exotic and archaic religions will significantly assist in a cultural dialogue with the representatives of such religions. It is more especially because … the history of religions will inevitably attain to a deeper knowledge of man. It is on the basis of such knowledge that a new humanism, on a world-wide scale, could develop."
— Mircea Eliade (via yasumiyasumi)
