Saturday, April 07, 2018

Earth's Eye


"A lake is a landscape's most
beautiful and expressive feature.
It is Earth's eye;
looking into which the
beholder measures the
depth of his own nature."

-  Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Monday, April 02, 2018

Embedded Patterns


"No pattern is an isolated entity.
Each pattern can exist in the world
only to the extent that is
supported by other patterns:
the larger patterns in
which it is embedded,
the patterns of the same
size that surround it,
and the smaller patterns
which are embedded in it. "

Saturday, March 31, 2018

'Silent' = 'Listen'


"The word 'listen'
contains the same letters
as the word 'silent'."

- Alfred Brendel (1931 - )

Friday, March 30, 2018

Hush of Silence


"Listen closely... 
the eternal hush of silence
goes on and on throughout all this,
and has been going on,
and will go on and on.
This is because the world
is nothing but a dream
and is just thought of
 and the everlasting eternity
pays no attention to it."

- Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Hardly Noticeable


"If you will stay close to nature,
to its simplicity,
to the small things hardly noticeable,
those things can unexpectedly
become great and immeasurable."

Monday, March 26, 2018

Crepuscular Cryptographs


"One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than as a present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory. Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified an mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process. Another, that the history of the universe — and in it our lives and the most tenuous detail of our lives — is the scripture produced by a subordinate god in order to communicate with a demon. Another, that the universe is comparable to those cryptographs in which not all the symbols are valid and that only what happens every three hundred nights is true. Another, that while we sleep here, we are awake elsewhere and that in this way every man is two men."

- Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Perception of the Infinite


"Thus the perception of the infinite is somehow prior in me to the perception of the finite, that is, my perception of God is prior to my perception of myself. For how would I understand that I doubt and that I desire, that is, that I lack something and that I am not wholly perfect, unless there were some idea in me of a more perfect being, by comparison with which I might recognize my defects?"

René Descartes (1596 - 1650)