this is my first time watching seven samurai and it is filled with bangers.

this passage from whitman grabs me by the scruff of the neck and dangles me over brooklyn bridge

Dostoevsky, the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
― Albert Einstein

The real nineteenth century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
― Albert Camus

today of all days, slow down

this is my first time watching seven samurai and it is filled with bangers.

today of all days, slow down

some straight up gems in this book. what are you reading today?

i feel attacked.

grief, explained.

In Péter Esterházy's famous Hungarian postmodern novel Celestial Harmonies he says the difference between God and his dead father is that 'God is everywhere' while his dead father is 'everywhere except here'.

i feel attacked.

grief, explained.

the way we look at things has a huge influence on what becomes visible for us. it’s like we view life through the lens of a camera fixed in focus. magnifying some areas, leaving the rest in blur. there are things we never noticed because of the way we see

go on. be bold.

practising giving things up like possessions or wealth or types of food is an ancient spiritual tradition because each loss is a small rehearsal for the day when we we will ultimately lose everything