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slayground: “ So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.” - Christopher McCandless

slayground:

“ So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.” - Christopher McCandless

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“We don’t teach meditation to the young monks. They are not ready for it until they stop slamming doors.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh to Thomas Merton in 1966


The piercing truth of this statement struck me as a perfect way to communicate the endless disguises and devices of the false self. There is no more clever way for the false self to hide than behind the mask of spirituality. The human ego will always try to name, categorize, fix, control, and insure all its experiences. For the ego everything is a commodity. It lives inside of self-manufactured boundaries instead of inside the boundaries of the God-self. It lives out of its own superior image instead of mirroring the image of God. The ego is constantly searching for any solid and superior identity. A spiritual self-image gives us status, stability, and security. There is no better way to remain unconscious than to baptize and bless the forms of religion, even prayer itself, instead of surrendering to the Substance Itself. First stop slamming doors, and then you can begin in the kindergarten of spirituality. Too many priests, bishops, and ministers are still slamming doors.

In the name of seeking God, the ego pads and protects itself from self-discovery, which is an almost perfect cover for its inherent narcissism. I know this because I have done it all myself.

—Richard Rohr (via wordslessspoken)

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jesuisperdu: yves klein working with a model making a “shroud anthropometry,” 14 rue campagne premiere, paris, february 17, 1960 [via mondo-blogo]

jesuisperdu:

yves klein working with a model making a “shroud anthropometry,” 14 rue campagne premiere, paris, february 17, 1960 [via mondo-blogo]

art-damaged: Dror Feiler “Snow White and the Madness of Truth” / electricity (In 2004, the Israeli ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel, tried to destroy the artwork by unplugging lights and throwing one of them into a pool causing a short circuit. Mazel claimed the work - a long pool of dyed water, upon which floated a small white boat carrying a portrait of a female Palestinian suicide bomber - was antisemitic. Upon entering the gallery space of Stockholm’s Museum of National Antiquities, he disconnected the electricity powering the installation and tipped one of its lights into the water. Mazel had to be escorted out by museum security; the work was able to be restored. A week later, Thomas Nordanstad, who curated the exhibition in which this work was shown, was attacked by an unidentified man who pushed him down a staircase. It was later revealed that Nordanstad had also received over 400 e-mails containing various threats. The attacker was not found.)

art-damaged:

Dror Feiler “Snow White and the Madness of Truth” / electricity

(In 2004, the Israeli ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel, tried to destroy the artwork by unplugging lights and throwing one of them into a pool causing a short circuit.

Mazel claimed the work - a long pool of dyed water, upon which floated a small white boat carrying a portrait of a female Palestinian suicide bomber - was antisemitic. Upon entering the gallery space of Stockholm’s Museum of National Antiquities, he disconnected the electricity powering the installation and tipped one of its lights into the water. Mazel had to be escorted out by museum security; the work was able to be restored.

A week later, Thomas Nordanstad, who curated the exhibition in which this work was shown, was attacked by an unidentified man who pushed him down a staircase. It was later revealed that Nordanstad had also received over 400 e-mails containing various threats. The attacker was not found.)

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